A Simple Guide To Different Pneumonias, Diagnosis, Treatment In Medical Practice
A Simple Guide To Different Pneumonias, Diagnosis, Treatment In Medical Practice
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Overview
This book describes Different Pneumonias, Diagnosis and Treatment as seen in a medical practice
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the airspaces in the lungs most often produced by infections.
Bacteria, viruses, or fungi can produce the infection.
There are also a few non-infectious types of pneumonia that are produced by inhaling or aspirating foreign matter or toxic substances into the lungs.
While anyone of any age can be involved, pneumonia is more frequent in elderly people.
Pneumonia often happens when the immune system is weakened through a prior infection or another disorder.
Pneumonia is much more severe when it involves older adults, infants and young children or those with chronic medical conditions.
It is the second highest cause of death in Singapore after cancer.
Types
Many micro-organisms can produce pneumonia.
The most frequent are bacteria and viruses that are inhaled into the lungs.
The body normally stops these micro-organisms from infecting the lungs.
But occasionally these micro-organisms can overpower the immune system, even if the health is normally good.
Pneumonia is classified based on the types of micro-organisms that cause it and where the patient got the infection.
1. Bacterial Pneumonia
Bacterial pneumonia is caused by bacteria instead of a virus, fungi or some other type of germ or foreign substance.
It can be caused by a wide range of bacteria and is treated with antibiotics.
This is a frequent form of pneumonia that can occasionally be very serious, leading to hospitalization or even death in severe cases.
A large number of people that are hospitalized with pneumonia have bacterial pneumonia.
It often occurs when a person has another type of illness such as the flu.
The immune system is weakened due to the first illness and bacteria causes a secondary infection.
2. Viral Pneumonia
It is triggered by viruses such as influenza, chickenpox, adenoviruses or respiratory syncytial virus.
The patient can catch viral pneumonia via coughing, sneezing or touching an object that was contaminated by an infected person.
A patient with viral pneumonia does not just have swollen lungs, but blocked oxygen flow as well.
It is said to be responsible for one-third of all pneumonia cases.
3. Mycoplasma Pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumonia is often the cause of "walking pneumonia" and gets that name because the symptoms are normally mild.
A person with this type of pneumonia is able to function and "walk around" unlike with more serious types of pneumonia where the patient could end up being in bed or at least at home for a while.
4. Fungal Pneumonia
Fungal pneumonia is caused when spores enter the lungs and widely spread.
It is rare and more often occurs in people with compromised immune systems.
5. Legionellosis (Legionnaire's Disease)
Legionellosis is an acute infectious disease of the respiratory tract produced by the bacillus Legionella pneumophilia, a Gram negative, non-sporulating aerobic micro-organism.
Legionnaires' disease can produce a type of atypical pneumonia.
6. Aspiration Pneumonia
Infections or inhalation of food, liquid, gases or dust into the airway cause this pneumonia.
7. Lipoid pneumonia
Lipoid pneumonia is a rare disorder that happens when fat particles enter the lungs and cause blockage of the airways.
Symptoms may be the same in all pneumonia with cough, shortness of breath and fever.
Diagnosis is by X-ray or CT scan and blood tests
Treatment is with antimicrobials, analgesics, oxygen, hydration, removal of inhaled substances
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Different Pneumonias
Chapter 2 Pneumonia
Chapter 3 Fungal Pneumonia
Chapter 4 Legionellosis Pneumonia
Chapter 5 Spanish Flu and Influenza
Chapter 6 Walking Pneumonia (Mycoplasma)
Chapter 7 Lipoid Pneumonia
Chapter 8 Aspiration Pneumonia
Chapter 9 SARS and Coronavirus
Epilogue
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940164086558 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Kenneth Kee |
| Publication date: | 05/21/2020 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 262 KB |
About the Author
Medical doctor since 1972.
Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.
Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.
Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 70.
However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in
the afternoon.
He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.
His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com
This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.
From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.
He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.
He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.
Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.
For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.
The later books go into more details of medical disorders.
He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.
The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.
He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.
His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.
The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.
He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting
with the Apple computer and going to PC.
The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.
The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.
He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.
His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.
The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.
This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.
Dr Kee is the author of:
"A Family Doctor's Tale"
"Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine"
"Case Notes From A Family Doctor"