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3.2.4. Changed Awareness Sleepiness A patient with pneumonia and fever is less alert and concentrated and has a lowered awareness. There is a tendency to dose off. During the day, the patient often takes short or longer naps. Moreover, the attention span and the time span during which the patient can tolerate conscious contact with his surroundings are reduced. The patient easily tires, carrying a ‘good conversation’ is an impossibility, and the patient prefers to keep contacts to a minimum. The decreased ability to concentrate is indicative of a diminished formative capacity in the patient's mind (compare fig.2.4.). Need to Rest Sensory stimuli such as smell, light, or sound are experienced as disturbing. The patient tries, therefore, to protect himself from the outside world. The patient does not tolerate sensory stimuli very well and has a need to rest. Deliriousness In addition to the lowered awareness, an abnormal, generally incoherent type of awareness may occur with fever. The patient can become delirious, a situation in which strange, frightening, or even absurd scenes manifest themselves in the mind. In contrast to the anxiety of the asthmatic patient in which all awareness appears to concentrate on one thing, the inner scenes in a delirium are dynamic, often colorful, hyperactive, and quick to change. The richness of images and the dynamic quality of the scenes are similar to what we know from our dreams. In contrast to what we saw with asthma, the awareness of the pneumonia patient is insufficiently formed and the quickly changing images exhibit a form-dissolving tendency (fig.2.4.).
Table 3.8. The characteristics of awareness in pneumonia Reaction to stimuli Consolidating tendency Dissolving tendency Awareness Breathing Muscle tension Metabolic changes Need to rest Decreased Diminished Decreased reaction reaction to appetite to cough stimulus motor stimuli Decreased Abrogated Hypotonic The typical concentration inhalation movements lung shape disappears with exudate Deliriousness Tachypnea Involuntary Infection and and tachycardia musculature fever 3.2.5. Summary and Conclusion Pneumonia The pneumonia patient has a completely different dynamic than the asthma patient. There is an acceleration of the metabolism, awareness is diminished, the concentrating ability declines, the muscles are hypotonic. The pathological process of pneumonia generally goes through a complete cycle in a limited period of time: acute beginning, quickly progressing development of infiltrate and infection, resolution of the infiltrate and complete recovery of the normal structure and function of the tissues. From the days before penicillin, we know that lobar pneumonia had an acute phase of approximately nine days, after which convalescence set in which took about five weeks. Pneumonia is a diversion of the normal healing process, since the infection induces an enhanced inflammatory phase with an increased dissolution process. However, eventually the dissolution will be curbed in and the healing process will be completed (fig.2.6.). This is in contrast to what happens in asthma, in which the disease process tends to remain stuck in a more or less pronounced consolidating tendency of the inflammatory phase Bolk’s Companions RespiRatoRy system DisoRDeRs anD theRapy - 45
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