Understanding Pneumonia: Pathophysiology and Nursing Management Strategies

pneumonia

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Background:.................................................................................................................................3
Underlying pathophysiology:.......................................................................................................4
Nursing management strategies for solving this issues-..............................................................6
Strategies by the management for solving the critical issues-.....................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Pneumonia is the disease which is caused by the bacteria as this is the viral infection. This
disease is the lung inflammation in which the air sacs are filled with pus and this then becomes
solid (Gregory and et.al., 2020). The lung inflammation has the ability to affect both lungs and
may be the single lung. The basic symptoms which are shown by the pneumonia patients are
cough, fever, shortness of breath, loss of appetite and many more. This report will discuss the
pathophysiology of the pneumonia patient as well as the two different strategies which should be
practised by the nursing as well as the management point of view.
MAIN BODY
Background:
The 30-year male patient was suffering from the pneumonia was shifted to the ICU for the
treatment. This patient was having the habit of smoking and drinking. This patient came in
contact with the person who was suffering from the pneumonia as these diseases is caused by the
bacterial or the virus. The person was having the bacterial pneumonia and the second day the
fever was started. When the patient was there in the ICU his health was normal as if he was
recovering from the diseases. But when the nursing management decided to shift the patient to
the ward, then he started deteriorating. The patient was young and these have the more risk from
this disease and as he was having the habit of drinking and smoking it became very difficult to
recover him as his lungs were already not much strong because drinking and smoking habit has
started damaging his lungs as well.
After this, his fever has started increasing as well as he was also feeling very shortness while
breathing, so he was again shifted to the ventilator. The bacteria of the pneumonia were started
top stream in the blood and the infection was stated spreading to the other organs as well. He was
given the treatment for the loosening the mucus and the medicines or the antibiotics were given
directly into the vein. This case of the pneumonia patient was becoming very critical.
Underlying pathophysiology:
Most of the time, the pneumonia occurs when the human body faces any breakdown in
the natural defenses as this enables the germs to enter into the human body and multiply with the
lungs. When the infections are reached to the alveoli then they become very virulent because
they when enter the human body they have already destroyed the physical defenses mechanisms