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23 year old patient is infected with the bacterium clostridium tetani…
23 year old patient is infected with the bacterium clostridium tetani
Clostridium tetani is fatal because the bacterium release toxins that destroy your nerves that control muscle movement causing serious breathing issues
Patient may require surgery to completely remove the infected muscle
Need to increase their daily calorie intake due to there being more muscle activity
Patient could potentially experience muscle spasm in neck and mouth making it difficult to swallow
Prescribed medications to help relax the muscles and reduce the spasm
An increase in calorie intake will help due to there being more muscle activity
If muscle spasm continue to be untreated then the patient could potentially die to difficulty breathing
Patient can experience stiffness in throat and neck making it difficult to breathe
Death could be an outcome
Prescribed medications to help with stiffness of his throat and neck to help swallow
Increase in calorie intake will help because there will be more muscle activity
First an action potential travels the length of the axon of a motor neuron to an axon terminal
Next, calcium entry causes synaptic vesicles to release acetylcholine via exocytosis
Acetylcholine diffuses across a synaptic cleft and binds to acetylcholine receptors which contain ligand-gated cation channels
The ligand-gated cation channels open
Sodium ions enter the muscle fiber and potassium ions exit the muscle fibers causing the membrane potential to become less negative
Once the membrane has become less negative an action potential propagates along the sacrolemma
A twitch is a single rapid contraction and relaxation of a muscle fiber due to a single action potential of a motor neuron
Tetany is the fusion of contractions to produce a continuous contraction
Clostridium tetani produces 2 toxins
Tetanospasm which causes clinical tetanus
These toxins prohibit the release of neurotransmitters at the neuromuscular junction
Tetanolysin which causes local tissue destruction
Exocytosis steps
The cell forms a vesicle around the material that needs to be expelled from cell
The vesicle is then transported to the membrane
The cell membrane and the vesicle fuse together so that contents can be released out of the cell
System for this case involve
Integumentary system
Nervous system
Muscle system
Circulatory
Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter responsible for the beginning muscle contraction
Neuromuscular junction chain of events
The patient was never vaccinated against the bacterium clostridium tetani
Therefore was infected by bacterium from a dirty needle from trying to get a tattoo