Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
TUBERCULOSIS Tuberculosis-patient - Coggle Diagram
TUBERCULOSIS 
DEFINITION
IS a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affect your lungs which is caused by Myobacterium.
CAUSES
-
This can happen when someone with the untreated, active form of tuberculosis coughs, speaks, sneezes, laughs or sings.
-
Caused by bacteria that spread from person to person though microscopic droplets released into the air
-
-
-
-
-
NURSING CARE PLAN
-
-
NURSING INTERVENTION
-
-
-
-
-
Encourage small, frequent meals with high protein and carbohydrates
-
Assess for dyspnea, tachypnea, abnormal or diminished breath sounds
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
The bacteria are transmitted through the airways to the alveoli and transported via the lymph system and blood
-
-
Granulomas new tissue masses of live and dead bacilli, ate surrounded by macrophages, which form a protective wall
They are then transformed to a fibrous tissue mass, the central point of which is called Ghon tubercle
The bacteria and the macrophages turns into a cheesy mass that may become calcified and form a collagenous scar
At this point , the bacteria become dormant, and there is no further progression of active disease
After initial of exposure and infection, active disease may develop because of the compromised immune system response.
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fatigue , weight loss, low-grade fever and night sweats
REFERENCES
Bare,B.G. Hinkle (2010)., Brunner and Suddarth's texbook of medical surgical nursing (12th ed )