when I was diagnosed with pneumonia while working in Dutch Harbor Alaska several years ago I was told that I would be susceptible to lung infections for the rest of my life. knowing that clearing the phlegm from my lungs was the most important part of my being able to protect myself in the future; was the stimulus for study into decongestants. what I found was that Anise had a history as a decongestant. from that point on I kept a large container with me at all times. I could not afford the store bought variety of commercial decongestant; nor did I like the side affects. the Anise would clear my congestion in minutes of drinking a strong infusion in hot water with honey & when I was very sick or others were sick at the same time I would make a big batch in a coffee pot with a can of cranberry sauce, cinnamon sticks, & honey. treating everyone at the same time worked very well to prevent the spread of the congestion.
Thank you for your video sir! I still have one question: What is the pathophysiology for low White blood cells and hypothermia in severe pneumonia? Thank you very much!
I think a low WBC count may be seen in patients with pneumonia, who are already septic.. there are some papers that talk about a massive consumption of neutrophils via NETosis, whereby neutrophils “sacrifice” themselves by extruding their DNA and other cell components to trap (hence the name NET or neutrophil extracellular trap) and kill bacteria.. here is an article talking about this: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460910/#:~:text=We%20presume%20that%20the%20clinical,tissues%20and%20NETosis%20is%20induced. ...then I guess in severe sepsis it could also be from bone marrow dysfunction, simply as a component of multiple organ failure ...but I'm not entirely sure and would love to read some more comments about this :)
A negative prognostic marker is a test result (or occasionally an exam finding) that increases the chance a patient will have a bad outcome from their illness (e.g. death, require mechanical ventilation, prolonged hospitalization, etc...). So for example, in pneumonia, if the admitting doctor was trying to decide whether to admit a new patient to a regular medical ward or to the ICU, if the person's blood pH was unusually low, that would push the doctor to admit to the ICU since it suggests that the illness is more severe and that the patient requires closer monitoring.
This is a great suggestion! I just don't have the bandwidth to take on this topic right now, but hopefully some day in the future. I do have a video on lung protective ventilation within my mechanical ventilation series, but it's ~7 years old and slightly out of date.
Everyone has full access - I don't put any content behind firewalls, paywalls, or subscription barriers. The introduction to the intern crash course is here, and if viewing on a computer (i.e. non-mobile), subsequent videos in the series should be shown in the upper right corner: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BfWT8n8SaxY.html
You should translate this into english so non-medical people like myself can understand WTH you are saying. The only words you said I can relate to are fever and walking pneumonia. That's why I will not finish watching this.
I'm sorry you had trouble following this, but the video series this is a part of is literally entitled "Intern Crash Course". Its primary audience is people who have graduated medical school.
I must apologize to you. I'm sorry. I got that wrong. I've been Ill with what appears to be pneumonia and my Doc is on vacation for 2 weeks. That's how I found your page. What I call medical speak is a whole real language to those like you and your audience. In the same way music is its own language to me. It can be read, written and expressed by a solo singer or an entire orchestra. Again, I'm sorry. All the best.
