Ca-Mrsa Case Studies

Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria reformat themselves in order to become unaffected by the drugs or substances created to terminate them (About Antimicrobial Resistance). They gain resistance to the drugs which causes the drugs to be ineffective of use and leads to more harm. Antibiotic resistance commonly occurs within patients because of physicians misusing or overusing antibiotics. This creates a common resistance to patients and resulting in the constant creation for new antibiotics that would treat the bacteria (Antibiotic Resistance). The main conflict generally evolves from medical stewardship where physicians have the responsibility to optimally heal their patients to their best efforts (Medical Ethics and the Stewardship

Hunting nightmare bacteria Answer the following questions Case of Addy (the girl from Arizona ) 1- Based on the pediatrician observations what was Addy’s diagnosis at the Pediatric Hospital intensive care unit ? She had got infected by staff or positive bacteria called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is a community associated bacteria that infects kids when they are playing in playing ground and getting scabs on their knee. They spread through that wound and it has very high resistance to antibiotics.

"During a time that I should have been planning for my son's college graduation and helping him prepare for his future, I was burying my only son, who only days before had been the picture of health” (IDSA Communications Staff). Theresa Drew, mother of Ricky Lannetti, tells the story of her son’s fatal experience. Ricky Lannetti was a strong and athletic twenty-one year old. Ricky had contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or better known as the “superbug”. He had reported having common flu-like symptoms leading up to the climax of this infection.

The body begins to go into toxic shock from the toxin the bacteria is giving off. Diagnosis depends on how rapidly the skin changes, redness, pain greater than the actual injury, erythema, skin necrosis, bullae and crepitus. Amputation of legs, hands, finger, toes are likely to happen to save the person 's life. Amputation occurs because the immune system can 't fight the bacteria at the

In the article Invasion of the Superbugs by Alessandra Potenza she warns you of a dangerous new bacterial disease that is resistant to antibiotics and what this could mean for the future. What are these superbugs? They are an antibiotic resistant bacterial disease. This was caused the over and misuse of antibiotics. These superbugs are actually very dangerous, one boy Joseph Paz received this disease and got a sharp pain in his right leg.

The infection death rate of the Allies vanished amid WW2 when penicillin

INTRODUCTION: In this experiment I was testing for antimicrobial sensitivity of Staphylococcus epidermidis by using the Kirby-Bauer Diffusion test. The three antibiotics utilized in this lab were: gentamicin, novobiocin, and penicillin. I determined the effectiveness of the antibiotic by observing and measuring the zone of inhibition for each antibiotic.

Clostridium difficile infection and transmission prevention continues to represent а difficult and serious challenge in patient safety and infection prevention. A single inpatient Clostridium difficile infection costs more than $35,000 in average and the estimated yearly cost burden for the health care system is more than $3 billion (MedPage Today, 2012). The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection is continue to change, and its presence in the community and the healthcare settings has caused healthcare personnel continue to re-evaluate approaches and perspectives. There are many risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection such as an exposure to antibiotics, advanced age, and hospitalization.

The people that are most susceptible to get Staphylococcus epidermidis are newborns, the elderly, immunocompromised patients, and patient’s who are using a catheter. This is because newborns and the elderly do not have as strong of immune systems as children and middle-age adults

As the name order, it is settled into Staphylococcus genus and S. Epidermidis species. S. Epidermidis makes its home on human skin, mucosal layer and nasal mucosa. Diseases can be taken form in human body and warm-blooded animals such as septicemia and endocarditis. In fact, S. Epidermidis is not too harmful on healthy tissue. The infection often occurs on newborn baby, drug users, and older people and those who need to use assistant devices on every part

Scientific Proof That Honey Is the Best Antibiotic Even scientists agree that honey is better than antibiotics, due to its natural antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties. The protein called defensin-1 in it can kill germs. Topically, honey can be used to destroy flesh-eating bacteria, MRSA and other pathogen bacteria.

Staphylococcus Aureus belongs to the extremely common bacteria of microflora of the skin and mucous membranes of the humans. These pathogens cause many infections, including superficial and deep purulent infections, poisoning, urinary tract infection etc. In the US, staphylococcus bacteria are supposed to be the leading cause of sepsis, postoperative wound and prosthesis infections. In addition, staphylococcus belongs to one of the leading causes of bacterial food poisoning. Staphylococcus Aureus is one of the most dangerous human pathogen.

Moreover burn injuries are highly susceptible to colonization and infection which leads to various critical complications in the management of burn victims.2 (Vindenes H 1995) Further, these infected burn wounds causes delay in epidermal maturation and deep scar formation.3( Jewo PI 2011) Patients suffering with infected burn wounds tend to stay for a longer duration in the hospital and are always associated with morbidity and high rates of mortality due to sepsis when compared with non-infected patients.4 (Maragakis LL 2008)The above said reasons are associated with several

Clinical governance ensures that organisations become accountable for continuously improving their services and safe-guarding standard of care ‘by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish’ (Scally and Donaldson 1998). Clinical audit emerged from within the clinical governance framework and is now seen as one of the most important elements of clinical governance (NICE 2002); it has been defined as ‘a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review against explicit criteria and the implementation of change’. The student intends to focus this audit on staff knowledge in relation to Hand Hygiene and Infection Control and to evaluate the hand hygiene education

Biochemical tests are the tests used for the identification of bacterial species based on the differences in the biochemical activities of different bacteria. Bacterial physiology differs from one species to the other. These differences in carbohydrate metabolism, protein metabolism, fat metabolism, production of certain enzymes and ability to utilize a particular compound help them to be identified by the biochemical tests. Gram’s stain was originally devised by histologist Hans Christian Gram in 1884. Gram-positive bacteria stain purple, while Gram-negative bacteria stain pink when subjected to Gram staining.