What is the treatment for pulmonary consolidation?
Patient: My mom is diagnosed with pulmonary consolidation with sepsis and her urine out put is less. AdmItted in AMC last night with complaints of fever and chest pain and bbreathing difficulty. Her blood pressure is dropping as well according to doctors in hyderabad. The doctors says maojr organs can be affectedd. What can be the management and recovary rate?? Doctor: Hello Welcome to HCM. Lung consolidation means  infection of thelungd and sepsis means invasion of blood with bacteria. Since the bacteria comes into the blood, it spreads to other organs and can cause urine tract infections., brain and other main organs. This causes the drop in blood pressure. The treatment is iv fluids to raise the pressure, and to start on BP increasing medications which are given intravenously. Also intravenous broad spectrum antibiotics should be added. Blood culture, urine culture and sputum culture should be done. The culture will help identify the oragnosm causing the infection and also show the antiobiotics that are effective against it. Diuretics should be given to increase the urine output and must be closely monitored.  If organism cannot be identified by culture and the patient is not able to bring out cough, then a Bronchoscopy must be done which involves inserting a small tube with camera at its tip through the nose into the airways and take samples from the area affected. This sample can be sent for culture. Antibiotics can be modified according to the culture reports.The infection may also affect the functions of the kidney and cause kidney issues. The outcome is hard to comment on and the recovery may take hospitalisation up to 10 days and rest till one month. Wishing her good health Regards.