Acute and Life Threatening Life Conditions

Running head: ACUTE AND LIFE THREATENING LIFE CONDITIONS
ACUTE AND LFIE THREATENING LIFE CONDITIONS
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Question 1
Taking insights from scenario, it can be observed that the patient Mr. Kirkman is inflicted
with urinary tract infections, which upon progression, has aggravated to the life-threatening
condition of urosepsis. The disease, urinary tract infection, commonly abbreviated to UTI, is a
result of pathogens and microbial strains infiltrating the urinary tract resulting in disruptive
symptoms, especially pertaining the urination and renal functioning. Without provision of timely
and robust treatment, symptoms of UTI increase in severity, as a result of the microbial strains
disseminating from the urinary bladder to the ureters, and throughout the urinary tract towards
the kidneys further leading to compromise in the normal functioning of the kidneys (Kline &
Lewis, 2016). An individual acquires symptoms of UTI after engaging in unhygienic excretory
or grooming habits, such as wiping incorrectly after urination, engaging in urination across
insanitary conditions or practicing sexual intercourse without usage of protection. This results in
microbial colonies like bacteria infecting the urinary balder and tract resulting in symptoms like
feelings of burning, irritation, inadequate emptying during urinary as well as release of urine
with abnormal characteristics like excessive darkening or thickness in terms of concentration.
Additional symptoms include a recurrent in the lower abdomen, which radiates surrounding the
right flank and kidney (Whiteside et al., 2015). Indeed such symptoms can be observed and
related extensively to the case scenario of Mr. Kirkman.
In response to the infection, the immunological processes of the human body is activated
resulting in defense mechanism to mitigate the impending infection. However, inadequacy in
terms of treatment provision coupled with emergence of symptoms of inflammatory and
oxidative stress results in loss of immune functioning and pathogenic progression towards the

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renal symptoms leading to hindered kidney processes of excretion (Vigil & Hickling, 2016).
Kidneys play a key role in the removal of harmful nitrogenous wastes and urea from the body
and hence, loss of their functioning disrupts this process. Such detrimental symptoms can be
observed extensively in Mr. Kirkman, in the form of his elevated rates of urea, sodium,
potassium and creatinine in serum as compare, which are abnormal as per normal reference
standards hence indicated renal functioning loss due to pathogenic infection (Conover et al.,
2016).
Further, UTI can aggravate to fatal symptoms of urosepsis when the pathogenic strains
concerned proliferate to the blood stream resulting in infection to other essential organs of the
body. Such symptoms exert inflammatory and immune responses in the individual resulting in
secretion of T-cells for defense. However, such immune processes evoke alterations in the
response of the human leading to abnormal immune functioning further triggering a cascading
mechanism associated with damage to multiple organs and hence, septic shock (Peach et al.,
2016). Such abnormalities result in symptoms of sepsis and hence alterations in mental states,
excessively high rates of respiration and abnormal rates of hypotension. Such fatal symptoms can
be identified and associated with the scenario of Mr. Kirkman, such as impairment in cognition,
slurring of speech, increased body temperatures, abnormal hypotension and excessively high
respiration rate. Such symptoms have contributed to oxygen deprivation and his present state of
hypoxia, flushed face and reduced partial pressure of oxygen (Schneeberger, Holleman &
Geerlings, 2016).