NCM 104

MIDTERM
CARE OF PATIENT WITH COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
ACTIVITY#2

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF THE BLOOD

DISEASE SYNONYM/S CAUSATIVE MOT PATHOGNOMONIC PORTAL OF PORTAL OF MANAGEMENT
AGENT SIGN ENTRY EXIT
DENGUE Hemorrhagic Arbovirus 1.Mosquito -Petechiae -Bite from Medical Management:
HEMORRHAGIC Fever or H- Bite -Herman’s Sign mosquito in >Symptomatic
FEVER Fever 2.Biological the skin >No specific treatment
Transmitters >If patient is febrile
-Aedes administer antipyretic but
Aegypti never use aspirin it will
-Aedes result to bleeding
Albopecttus >If there is bleeding give
3.Mechanical coagulants such as vit. K,
Transmitter Aquamephytn or Konakion
-Culex >Give Vitamin C to increase
fatigans capillary resistance

Nursing Management:
>Prioritize bleeding
prevention and control
>For gum bleeding use
cotton swab
>Provide ice chips
>Advise patient to gargle
>Keep patient on NPO if
patient vomits blood
>Apply ice pack over
epigastric region of the
patient
>Doctor may order NGT
insertion
>For gastric lavage, use ice
cold NSS or coagulant
MALARIA Ague Protozoa Mosquito Bite -Stepladder Fever -Bite from -anywhere in Medical Mangement:
>Plasmodium with chills infected the skin >Anti-malarial Agents
Malariae mosquito in where >Drug of Choice:
>Plasmodium the skin mosquito can Chloroquine
Ovale bite >other Drug used:
>Plasmodium -Primaquine
Vivax -Atabrine
>Plasmodium -Pancidar
Falciparum -quinine