Question

You are now a nurse at Seattle Grace Hospital. As part of your work you are responsible for collecting specimens that go to the lab for analysis so that patients can be diagnosed. You collect a sputum sample and take it to the lab. The lab tells you that they will be culturing this sample so that they can understand what is causing the patient to be ill. Address the following: What is a sputum sample, how can it be cultured, what organisms may be present, what might the patient's diagnosis be?, what is a potential course of treatment - why?, what steps might the lab take to test this sample?

Answer 1

​* SPUTUM SAMPLE FOR CULTURE IS SAMPLE OBTAINED FROM DEEP COUGHING COMES FROM CHEST TO IDENTIFY BACTERIA OR FUNGUS THAT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFECTION OF LUNGS OR RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. * ASK THE PATIENT TO COUGH DEEPLY TO GET SPUTUM FROM THE LUNGS. _ SALIVA CONTENT ARE ABLE TO INEFFECTIVE THIS TEST. _ DRINKING LOTS OF WATER TO LOOS THE SECRETION AND GET EASIER BY COUGH. _ CLEAN THE MOUTH WITH WATER. _ ASK THE PATIENT TO TAKE THREE DEEP BREATH TO GET GOOD SAMPLE AND TO SPIT INTO THE SAMPLE COLLECTION CUP. NEED ATLEAST 2 ML. _ SPUTUM CULTURE IS DONE THROUGH GRAM STAINING. * ORGANISAM- MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. * DIAGNOSED AS TUBERCULOSIS- IT IS A POTENTIAL SERIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASE MAINLY AFFECTS LUNGS. *TREATED WITH COMBINATION OF ANTIBACTERIAL MEDICATION FOR 6-12 MONTHS PERIOD. IT CONTAINS ISONIAZID INH COMBINATION WITH RIFAMPIN, PYRAZINAMIDE, AND ETHAMBUTOL