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Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.

Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.

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The patient was a 44 year-old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, high cholesterol, and heavy smoking (2 packs/day). He presented to the emergency room with complaints of chest pain and was found to have suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack). A cardiac catheterization on hospital day 3 showed three arterial occlusions, and he underwent a triple-bypass on hospital day 5. On day 7, he developed septic shock with acute respiratory and renal failure, requiring intubation. He had a fever at that time of 39.3° C and two blood cultures were obtained. A chest x-ray showed left lung pleural effusion and a chest tube was inserted to drain the effusion. On day 11, pus was leaking from the sternal wound. Cultures derived from the wound and from the chest tube grew the organism noted in figures 1 and 2. A Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion assay is shown in figure 3. Figure 1: Organism under 1000x #LEHET A ALBUFE ALTHO 65 greets Figure 2: Organism grown on 5% BAP Figure 3: K-B disk diffusion assay. The organism is shown to be resistant gentamycin, oxacillin, penicillin, and erythromycin. The organism is sensitive to vacomycin and TMP/SMX.
Transcribed Image Text:The patient was a 44 year-old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, high cholesterol, and heavy smoking (2 packs/day). He presented to the emergency room with complaints of chest pain and was found to have suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack). A cardiac catheterization on hospital day 3 showed three arterial occlusions, and he underwent a triple-bypass on hospital day 5. On day 7, he developed septic shock with acute respiratory and renal failure, requiring intubation. He had a fever at that time of 39.3° C and two blood cultures were obtained. A chest x-ray showed left lung pleural effusion and a chest tube was inserted to drain the effusion. On day 11, pus was leaking from the sternal wound. Cultures derived from the wound and from the chest tube grew the organism noted in figures 1 and 2. A Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion assay is shown in figure 3. Figure 1: Organism under 1000x #LEHET A ALBUFE ALTHO 65 greets Figure 2: Organism grown on 5% BAP Figure 3: K-B disk diffusion assay. The organism is shown to be resistant gentamycin, oxacillin, penicillin, and erythromycin. The organism is sensitive to vacomycin and TMP/SMX.
Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.
Transcribed Image Text:Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.
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