Necrotizing Fasciitis

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Necrotizing Fasciitis

• Ishtua Alicea

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Overview

• Its a soft tissue infection thats rare but can
  lead to DEATH and other life threaten causes.
• Necrotizing can destroy the muscles, skin, and
  tissue.

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Symptoms

• Small, reddish, painful spot or bump on the
  skin.
• Center may become black and die off.
• The skin may break open and ooze fluid.
• The wound may quickly grow in less than an hour.

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Symptoms

• Include general ill feeling, fever, sweating,
  chills, nausea, dizziness, weakness, and shock.
• Without treatment, death can occur rapidly.

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Treatment

• Powerful antibiotics (treats other bacteria)
  must be given immediately through a vein.
• Surgery is needed to open and drain infected
  areas and remove dead tissue.
• You are given an antibiotics
• Amputation

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Causes

• Many different types of bacteria cause this
  infection.
• Starts when bacteria enters the body, through a
  minor cut or scrape.
• The bacteria begins to grow and release (toxins)
  that
• Directly kill tissue
• Interfere with the blood flow to the tissue
• Break down materials in the tissue, which quickly
  spreads the bacteria
• Leads to shock

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Test Diagnosis

• How the skin and tissue look can help the doctor
  diagnose soft tissue infection.
• CT scans are taken.
• Tests performed on blood, fluids, or tissue from
  the area.

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Prognosis

• gt How well a patient does depends on
• How fast the diagnosis was obtained
• The type of bacteria causing the infection
• How infection quickly the spreads
• How well the antibiotics work
• The death rate is high, even with aggressive
  treatment and powerful antibiotics.
• Untreated, infection spreads and causes death

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Prevention

• gt Dont leave a minor cut untreated
• Clean your skin after a cut, scrape

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Complications

• gt Tissue damage
• Spread of infection, shock
• Loss of an arm or leg
• Death

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When to contact a doctor

• gt Immediately after
• Drainage of pus or blood
• Fever
• Pain
• Redness
• Swelling

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Hepatitis

• Something they have in common is to wash your
  hands. But its for different reasons. Its
  caused by alcohol going into the liver.
  Necrotizing fasciitis is more deadly b/c you die
  within a couple of hour, and hepatitis. You just
  need to go a diet. But it leads too liver
  cancer.