PSEUDOMONAAS AERUGINOSA S A GRAM-NEGATIVE

BACTERIUM COMMONLY FOUND IN SOIL AND WATER. IT IS AN OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN, CAUSING INFECTIONS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS.

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024).

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA INFECTION THAT REACHES THE BLOODSTREAM TENDS TO BEMORE SEVERE.

COMMON SYMPTOMS OF THE INFECTION INCLUDES:

• FEVER

  
  

• FATIGUE/MALAISE

  
  

• DYSPNEA

  
  

• WOUND DISCHARGE

  
  

• OTHER SYSTEMIC SYMPTOMS BASED ON WHICH ORGAN HAS BEEN TARGETED BY THIS PATHOGEN LIKE

  
  

• LUNG, URINARY TRACT, COLONS.

  (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023).

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSAS CAN BE CONTRACTED

WITH

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, 2024).

• CONTACT WITH CONTAMINATED SURFACES OR MEDICAL DEVICES (WHO, 2022).

• EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINATED WATER (CDC, 2023).

  
  

• PERSON-TO-PERSON TRANSMISSION IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS (Tam & Nikolaou, 2011).

  
  

 TREATMENT COMBINATION ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY IS USED, INCLUDING CARBAPENEMS AND AMINOGLYCOSIDES (Murray et al., 2019).

FOLLOW ALL THE PRECAUTIONARY METHOD TO CONTROL INFECTION (Health Canada)2022

• PESRSONAL SUPPORT WORKER CAN

  
  

  • ASSIST WITH HYGIENE TO PREVENT SECONDARY INFECTIONS.

    
    

  • MONITOR SYMPTOMS, REPORT CHANGES.

    
    

  • PROVIDE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WHILE ENSURING PATIENT DIGNITY.

    
    

  • REPORT ANY CHANGES IN BEHAVIOUR, SIGNS / SYMPTOMS

    (World Health Organization, 2024)

THREE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TO PREVENT THIS INFECTION

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES:

• USE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) (WHO, 2022).

• PRACTICE STRICT HAND HYGIENE (CDC, 2023).

• DISINFECT SURFACES AND EQUIPMENT.

(Health Canada, 2022).