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Name: Rabanes, Janine Faith M.

Date: October 20, 2023

Course & Year: BSN-2E

Clinical Area: MCDC Hospital

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Pediatric Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

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Pneumonia is a type of lung infection. It can cause breathing problems and other symptoms. In
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), you get infected in a community setting. It doesn’t happen in a
hospital, nursing home, or other healthcare center. Your lungs are part of your respiratory system. This
system supplies fresh oxygen to your blood and removes carbon dioxide, a waste product. When you
breathe in air through your nose and mouth, it reaches the tiny air sacs of the lung (alveoli) through a
series of tubes. From here, oxygen flows into your blood. Carbon dioxide flows out from the blood into
the alveoli, and you then breathe it out. Many germs can grow inside your body and cause disease.
Specific types of germs can cause lung infection and pneumonia when they invade. This can cause your
respiratory system to work poorly. For example, oxygen may not be able to get into your blood as easily.
That can cause shortness of breath. If your body can’t get enough oxygen to survive, pneumonia may
lead to death. Sometimes these germs can spread from person to person. When someone infected with
one of these germs’ sneezes or coughs, you might breathe the germs into your lungs. If your immune
system doesn’t kill the germs first, the germs might grow and cause pneumonia. CAP can result from
infection with many types of germs. These include bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Symptoms from
pneumonia can range from mild to severe. Certain types of germs are more likely to lead to serious
infection. CAP is more common during the winter months, in older adults. But it can affect people of any
age. It can be very serious especially in older adults, young children, or people with other health
problems.

Reaction:

Actually, my older brother’s daughter which is my niece was admitted recently with PCAP-c and I was
there every other night to be a watcher with my brother. My niece is 1 year and 3 months old and my
brother’s chief of complaint was cough and fever. I witness that she has difficulty sleeping especially at
night due to her dry cough and fever. My brother’s conclusion was that because of the weather recently
its raining and then sunny or what we called “subaw”.

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Summary (35%)

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