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‭LTY150 2nd paper draft: Is the treatment for pneumonia in hospitals ethical?‬
‭Intro: Approach to treating hospital-acquired pneumonia is ethical because it enables‬
‭prevention of spreading,‬
‭BP1: Hx of Pneumonia procedure‬
‭This leads up to today’s modern guidelines and procedures‬
‭BP2: Current guideline‬
‭As time progresses, so do our improvement on our approach to preventing the spread of‬
‭pneumonia. According to News Medical, vaccinations today in developed countries have cut‬
‭down the mortality rate for children under the age of 5 by ⅔ during the period 1990-2015 (Chow,‬
‭2021). This entails that with modern medicine, we’re able to circumvent the spread of‬
‭pneumonia from what used to be the leading cause of death to now just another common disease.‬
‭Even if that may be the case, it does not mean to undermine it, it still has the potential to be fatal‬
‭to infants and older adults, however, this does not mean we can’t prevent it. In today’s time we‬
‭have a vast amount of articles and guides that show us how to treat and prevent the spread of‬
‭pneumonia.‬
‭Bp3: How to improve upon it‬
‭As we move on to the future, our need to improve‬‭does as well. Pathogens are an always‬
‭evolving microsome meaning various strains will develop and they have the potential to be‬
‭resistant to vaccines or completely nullify it which is why the need to improve is necessary.‬
‭While it is inevitable that a multitude of strains will be produced in a short span of time, it’s‬
‭always necessary to improve our treatments in order to counter the pathogen‬
‭Citation:‬
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‭https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-019-4044-y‬
‭-‬ ‭https://www.news-medical.net/health/Pneumonia-History.aspx‬
‭-‬ ‭https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/ethics-consult/98000‬
‭-‬ ‭https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016845/‬
‭-‬ ‭https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000146.htm‬
‭-‬ ‭https://err.ersjournals.com/content/29/157/200023‬
‭-‬ ‭https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-017-2407-4‬
‭-‬ ‭https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e062360.long‬
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