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Child Health Nursing: Unit-V Nursing Management in Common Childhood Disorders Communicable Diseases in Childhood
Child Health Nursing: Unit-V Nursing Management in Common Childhood Disorders Communicable Diseases in Childhood
UNIT- V
NURSING MANAGEMENT IN COMMON CHILDHOOD
DISORDERS
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN CHILDHOOD
OBJECTIVES
• Bacterial infection
• CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE
Aerobic gram-positive bacillus
CLINCAL MANIFESTATION
• Laryngospasm
• Fractures
• Hypertension
• Nosocomial infections
• Pulmonary embolism
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Death
Epidemiology
• Bacterial infection
• Reservoir Human
Adolescents and adults
• DTaP (pediatric)
• Local reactions
(pain, redness, swelling)
• Temp of 101oF
or higher
• More severe adverse reactions
not common
• Local reactions more common following 4th and 5th doses