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Applied Pharmacotherapeutics

In the given clinical scenario, a patient named James E. Jones, aged 58 years has been admitted to the hospital with high severity lower lobe pneumonia. The patient problems are identified and four of them are listed below for care priorities and rationale for the treatment recommendations.

1. Lower lobe pneumonia- It is a type of pneumonia in the intra-alveolar space defined by inflammatory exudate, resulting in accumulation that affects a wide and continuous region of the lung lobe. For the prevention of bacterial pneumonia, certain medications are used. It can take time to determine and select the right antibiotic to treat the species of bacteria causing pneumonia. In this case, the patient has been given antibiotics through IV route. Rash, scratching and diarrhea are the most common symptoms involved with using IV antibiotics (Ford et al., 2018). The doctor may have to control these adverse effects and, where appropriate, c....