The treatment of community-acquired pneumonia depends on which pathogens caused the disease and the patient's health. Generally, outpatient, oral antibiotic therapy is sufficient for individuals below 60 years old who have mycoplasmal, chlamydial and Legionella pneumo...
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Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is increasingly recognized as a complex, multisystemic disease with the potential to cause both acute and long-term sequelae, significantly impacting patient mortality rates. In this manuscript, the authors review the current methodologies for assessing mortality risk am...
Antibiotics are used to treat pneumococcal infection; however, certain strains of the bacteria have acquired resistance to medications. Drug resistance can complicate treatment and lengthen hospital stays. Antibiotics prescribed to treat pneumococcal pneumonia For mild pneumococcal pneumonia infections Amoxicill...
Patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia caused by S. pneumoniae strains with intermediate susceptibility to penicillin according to the conventional definition respond well to treatment with adequate doses of beta-lactam antibiotics. All studies currently available comparing mortality between pati...
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Pneumonia Guideline. Of the 36 BTS recommendations that overlapped with NICE recomme...
Whoopi Goldberg's absence on The View officially hit the one-month mark today after the 63-year-old came down with pneumonia. The talk show regular last appeared on air on February 6.
MRSA pneumonia and sepsis (infection of the blood) have high death rates; the calculated death rate of invasive MRSA is about 20%. HA-MRSA (hospital-acquired MRSA) infections are a growing problem; it is reported that about 19,000 deaths per year in the U.S. are due to HA-MRSA, whic...
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs may affect the presentation and course of community-acquired pneumonia. Chest. 2010;139(2):387–94. Article PubMed Google Scholar Hoedemaekers CW, Ezzahti M, Gerritsen A, van der Hoeven JG. Comparison of cooling methods to induce and maintain normo- and ...
In this episode of“YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED”I want to answer a question from one of my clientsAnnaas part of my1:1 consulting and advocacy service!Anna’s dad is in ICU due to pneumonia and sepsis. Anna is asking for advice about her dad’s treatment...