Addie's Story.
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BIOLOGY PROJECT
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- Addie's StoryBacterial Growth
- Ouch! I scraped my knee while playing.
- *Begins to pick scab*
- You're probably just sore. Here's some Ibuprofen.
- Mom, my hips are hurting extremely bad. Can you help me?
- Time Passes and Addie's Symptoms worsen.. her mother eventually takes her to the hospital. At Hospital 1, Addie's mother feels as if their "diagnosis"was inadequate so she eventually chooses another hospital.
- What's wrong with her? She isn't getting any better.
- HOSPITAL 1
- She's fine, it's just a pneumonia
- Addie has developed the MRSA staph infection, and I'm afraid it's antibiotic resistant
- MRSA?Antibiotic resistant? Will she ever get better?
- HOSPITAL 2
- Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms that contain cell walls, but lack a nucleus and reproduce through binary fission. This allows bacteria to reproduce at rapid rates, allowing quick adaptations.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a type of staph bacteria that's become resistant to many of the antibiotics.
- RESISTANT BACTERIA
- Resistant bacteria cannot be killed by antibiotics. Trait mutation can be passed onto future offspring.
- BINARY FISSION
- A type of Asexual reproduction where a parent cell copies its DNA and divides into two identical daughter cells.
- MEANWHILE IN ADDIE..
- Addie has two types of bacteria in her body: Resistant and Non-resistant. When Addie was introduced to antibiotics, it killed the non resistant bacteria, but the resistant remained. Due to the more available resources, the resistant bacteria quickly reproduced. The influx of resistant bacteria caused Addie to get sicker because the antibiotics were ineffective.
- Addie's MRSA has worsened.
- YES, but ECMO may introduce more bacteria into her system.
- Are you putting her on ECMO ?
- The purpose of ECMO is to pump and oxygenate a patient's blood outside the body, resting the lungs. Most ECMO procedures required the assistance of blood transfusions, which can pose a serious risk of blood clotting and bacterial transmissions.
- WHAT IS ECMO?
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. (Similar to heart-lung by-pass)
- PROBLEMS Addie receive ECMO , but as predicted her body was introduced to more bacteria. This new bacteria that Addie wa introduced to was Stenotrophomonas , a type of Gram-Negative pan-resistant bacteria. This bacteria quickly reproduced due to it's antibiotic resistant nature.
- Although Addie's Stenotrophomonas was pan-resistant, her doctors still tried to push for a variety combination of Antibiotics. But the bacteria's antibiotic strains made this very difficult. Her doctors had limited time to solve this issue or they would lose Addie. They needed another option...
- Our last resort. It's time for the lung transplant.
- What will we do now ?
- Bring the Organ
- Hope this goes well..
- LUNG TRANSPLANT
- Although Addie received the lung transplant, she still has to maintain a steady intake of antibiotics so that her new lungs won't go bad.
- STAY SAFE. WASH YOUR HANDS & LEAVE YOUR SCARS ALONE ! ONCE YOUR BACTERIA BECOMES ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT, IT'S HARD TO GET RID OF IT
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