Advanced pharmacology: Discussion Week 9 Brief description of your patient’s health needs from the patient case study you assigned. Be specific.

Advanced pharmacology: Discussion Week 9 Brief description of your patient’s health needs from the patient case study you assigned. Be specific.

Patient M presents with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and remains hospitalized for

treatment. The patient is currently being treated on multiple antibiotics which have been reported

to keep the patient comfortable and improve the general clinical status. The patient will need to

continue the antibiotics for continued treatment of the pneumonia infection. CAP is a common

infection in the elderly, (Perry, 2022). The aim should be to stabilize the patient and reduce the

length of hospital stay.

My focus would be to reduce the stress on the patient’s immune response which could be

affected by the body's inflammatory response due to unmanaged body stressors. He will need to

have his fever managed, nausea, and vomiting, as well as his COPD. These symptoms when

managed could reduce the worsening of the patient’s coping with his respiratory condition affected

by pneumonia. COPD is known to increase the risk of pneumonia, and in my patient’s case, the

gram-positive bacilli pathogen – Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria has been confirmed., paying

attention to oxygen saturation and breathing ability would also be a high priority, (Rizzo, 2022).

Pneumonia infection affects the body beyond the airways in the alveoli into supporting lung tissue.

To prevent further pulmonary damage, decreasing the fluid in the lungs will in turn stabilize the

patient. Chronic irritation causes permanent damage which increases the patient’s risk of acquiring

pneumonia due to impaired pulmonary function.