In a child with sore throat, otherwise known as pharyngitis, the most common etiologic agent that causes pharyngitis is adenoviruses. Although, with a high grade fever and a red, inflamed throat, a bacterial etiology can be considered and the most common bacterial agent in pharyngitis is <em>Streptococcus pyogenes. </em>There are suppurative and non-suppurative complications following an untreated streptococcal infection. Suppurative complications (which involves pus) includes tonsillar abscess or collection of pus within the tonsils, otitis media or the infection of the middle compartment of the ear canal, sinusitis, etc. The non-suppurative complications are more serious than suppurative complications. There are two non-suppurative complications, (1) acute rheumatic fever which can progress to rheumatic heart disease which affects the valves of the heart and can ultimately lead to heart failure, and (2) acute glomerulonephritis which involves streptococcal antibodies attacking the glomerular basement membrane in the kidneys and this will present as oliguria (decreased urine production), hypertension (from fluid overload), and hematuria (blood in the urine).
The nurse is assessing the patient's CONCEPT FORMATION.
Concept formation is the ability of an individual to develop ideas based on common properties of objects or events by making use of the process of abstraction and generalization.
Answer:
a) smaller size and no temperature gradient
Explanation:
The correct answer is B) is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of that element.
Explanation:
The atomic number, which is represented by the letter Z, refers to the number positively charged particles known as protons. This characteristic is key in chemistry and related areas because based on these features elements have different properties and are named. For example, an atom of nitrogen element always contains 7 protons, while one of the gold contains 79 protons. Moreover, this property is not related to the number of neutrons because atoms with the same atomic number might differ in the number of neutrons, which leads to isotopes of the same element.
