Question

A 41-year-old male client has presented to the emergency department with an acute onset of increased respiratory rate and difficulty breathing. STAT chest X-ray indicates diffuse bilateral infiltrates of his lung tissue and ECG displays no cardiac dysfunction. What is this client’s most likely diagnosis?

Answer 1

The answer is sarcoidosis, nocardiosis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Males, who are over 40, often have some health problems including pulmonary diseases, heart diseases, cancers and so on. In this case of the 41-year-old male patient, this is disease related to respiratory

• The respiratory rate increase and difficulty breathing are respiratory disease symptoms.

• Acute
• STAT chest X-ray shows the diffuse bilateral infiltrates ⇒ Sarcoidosis.
• ECG shows no cardiac dysfunction ⇒ nocardiosis.

Answer 2

It can either be pneumonia, tuberculosis, or nocardiosis

Step-by-step explanation:

All these types of pulmonary infiltrates can be identified by high efficacy radio-graphs of chest. If the ECG displays no cardiac dysfunction then the client is most likely to be effected with nocardiosis. It's a common type of infection causes by bacteria of genus Nocardia and can be treated with inhaling type of antibiotics that directly enter the lung cavity and interact with the bacterium.