A case study of asthma in a 10 year old European child. This case study will cover the normal structure and function of the respiratory system. This case study will also discuss the changes that occur when asthma is triggered, and the routine diagnostic tests/vital signs for asthma. The normal range of the routine tests/vital signs for asthma and three nursing interventions that are required to meet the clients needs in relation to asthma will be explained further.…
Panchito believes that his chronic respiratory disease (asthma) has been directly affected by the air quality in the community. “Growing up…
Individuals with asthma: There is a 5.3% of morbidity of older adults living with asthma for Tulare County, CA (CDC, 2015). And according to the Tulare County Asthma Profile, “Approximately 63,000 children and adults have been diagnosed with asthma”, showing the amount of individuals who live in Tulare County experiencing problems with asthma and are targets of having smoke inhaled in their systems, worsening their health. The health impacts of the problem (National and state-level data within the last 5 years) Health Effects of second hand smoking has an impact on every organ in the body. Smoking may be an underestimate, because it considers deaths only from the 21 diseases that have been formally established as caused by smoking (12 types of cancer, 6 categories of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
Assessment Task Two Case Study Question 1 Mr. Harding has a number of ‘pre-morbid’ chronic conditions that may be impacting on his admission and the care you will need to provide. Choose two (2) of Mr. Harding’s chronic diseases, explain the pathophysiology. What organs are affected by each disorder? (20 marks/10 per disorder) Asthma Asthma is a chronic syndrome related to the inflamed airways of the lungs (Rogers 2010).…
Identify the various triggers in JR’s life that may exacerbate asthma and prevent control. Exposure to neighbors’ smoking, two cats that sleep at the head of the bed with him, hypertension, and irritants and wood dust from occupational exposure are the noted triggers for JR. (Kaufman, 2011, p. 50).…
In the article Environmental Justice in the 21st century: Race Still Matters, Robert Bullard explains the poor living conditions and the quality of the environment where minorities are located. Bullard touches on the main ideas of clean air, exploitation of land, environment, and people, and global dumping grounds. Minorities that live in urban areas are at higher risk of asthma because the air is not clean. Bullard states that the “poor people and people of color often work in the most dangerous jobs, live in the most polluted neighborhoods, and their children are exposed to all kinds of environmental toxins on the playground and in their homes” (156). Therefore, blacks are more likely to be affected.…
Journal Critique Asthma Interventions in a School Through Policy and Practices Change The article Sustaining School-Based Asthma Interventions through Policy and Practice Change by Carpenter, Lachance, Wilkin, and Clark, (2013), studied the importance of the policy and practice change in the intervention of asthma in schools in order to implement a standardized asthma action plan with parental consent. Changes in school policies and practices to sustain school-based programs were observed through the Childhood Asthma Linkages in Missouri (CALM). However, according to Lachance et al (2013), sustaining school-based programs can be challenging. The article explains the toll that asthma takes on children,…
This is a large issue in ensuring that the education rate stays high and in attempting to give them a life to set them on the right track. Today in Syracuse, there are 6,109 children under the age of 18 who have asthma, and almost 17,000 adults (CDC, 2015). It is unlikely their life will change in the next few years through their home situation, which means that the high school drop out rates will increase, and in turn make poverty levels rise. The way to make sure this is changed is to encourage good educational skills, and to get them out of harmful situations. In the video we watch in class today, many of the homes were changed and the community made a huge turn around.…
Many children with asthma are too scared to play in case they suffer from a severe asthma attack. Feelings, such as fear, can affect the way we breathe, for example Jonah may breathe at a faster rate when he is scared about participating in PE, and he may take shallower breaths through his mouth. This means that the air has not been warmed in his nose which will then go into his lungs as cold air; this type of breathing could be an asthmatic trigger for Jonah. (Asthma UK, 2015). During an asthma attack, children rely heavily on people around them, to give them their medication and assess how they are; this may leave them feeling helpless and embarrassed.…
More than 72% of African Americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards, compared to 58% of Whites. According to the Office of Minority Health: From 2003-2005, African American children had a death rate 7 times that of non-Hispanic White children. In 2010, almost 4,500,000 non-Hispanic Blacks reported that they currently have asthma. 17% of all African American children are asthma…
Asthma: An Annotated Bibliography America Breathing Easier 2010: CDC’s National Asthma Control Program AT A GLANCE E. (n.d) Retrieved March 16, 2015from http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/aag/2010/ataglance2010.pdf The Center for Disease and Control Prevention is national asthma control program at a glance. This website gave the information about how to improving the quality of life and reducing the death and cost that impact on U.S. population.…
1. Discuss the pathophysiology of asthma. Asthma occurs when a patient’s airway becomes narrow, swells and produces excess mucus. The patients’ breathing becomes labored and causes shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing.…
Cancer, asthma, and life-threatening allergies are on the rise. According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the number one cause of death for children in disease related incidences. Also, in just the past twenty years rates of asthma have doubled. A possible cause for these spikes is that in just the last 50 years over 70,000 man-made chemicals have been created.…
These may not be as effective as they are meant to be. Morbidity and mortality levels due to asthma have continued to rise in different places: however, self-management, patient education and training is vital for successful asthma treatment and control, and must thus be emphasized in order to improve outcomes in asthma…
According to the National Institutes of Health, asthma affects about 25 million people, just in the US. And according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, nearly 7.1 million asthma sufferers are under the age of 18. How many of you are older than 18? This is why it is so important to know about asthma, because it affects us the most. It is important to know how to identify…