QUESTIONS:• The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might theyverify this?• What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have?• What is the appropriate treatment for her condition?• Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency Tdepartment personnel or family members with whom she lives?Appreciate A WOMAN WITH NO FEELINGSA 41-year-old woman arrives in the hospital emergency department with third-degree burns on the second and third fingers of her left hand. Through a familymember who acts as an interpreter, she tells the triage nurse that she had moved tothe United States from Brazil barely six months before. This evening she had beensitting in her living room, cigarette in hand, watching the nightly news, when shenoticed the odor of something burning. As she rose to investigate, she saw that herfingers were blackened and smoking where the cigarette had burned down. With ajerk she discarded the cigarette and marveled that she felt no pain-it was as if herfingers were not her own.

Leprosy( Hansen's disease) is defined as a type of infectious disease that is caused by the…

The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might they verify this? • What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have? • What is the appropriate treatment for her condition? • Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency T department personnel or family members with whom she lives?

The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might they verify this? • What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have? • What is the appropriate treatment for her condition? • Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency T department personnel or family members with whom she lives?

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