Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality and a common cause of morbidity in children below five years of age. Commonly, pneumonia is caused by bacterial agents. The diagnosis of pneumonia is usually made on clinical features. A child with tachypnea with no chest in-drawing or difficulty in...
In 2012, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus caused an outbreak of severe pneumonia with a nearly 75% mortality rate. The causative agent is related to a virus that normally infects camels, and most cases have been traced to initial exposures in the Arabian Peninsula. Mycoplasma...
Several reports have recently shown that frailty was related to mortality in older adults hospitalized due to respiratory infectious diseases9,10,11. However, it was unknown whether frailty is associated with susceptibility to and severity of pneumonia in community-dwelling older adults. Our results sh...
Among more generally used mortality prediction scores, qSOFA has been shown to have similar predictive performance to that of Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II or SOFA, as evidenced by a lack of statistical difference between AUROC [32]. The MEWS and CURB-65 scores ...
While this list of next steps is lengthy and ambitious, the Pneumonia Workgroup has shown what it can accomplish in a short period of time and the lengths it will go to in order to improve the care and clinical outcomes for MultiCare patients. There is little doubt that this approach will...
Risk and mortality of aspiration pneumonia in Parkinson's disease: a nationwide database study After the first occurrence of aspiration pneumonia, the mortality rate of PD patients was 23.9% after one month, 65.2% after 1 year, and 91.8% after 5 years, while that of controls was 30.9%, 67....
It is widely supposed that there is no benefit, including extended survival and decreased rate of pneumonia, in patients with severe dementia receiving enteral tube feeding (TF). However, there have been few studies comparing the frequency of pneumonia before and after TF in severe dementia. Metho...
In our series, the rate of mixed infections was low (n = 20), with no associated mortality. Most co-infections were caused by pneumococci and Legionella spp. which may be detected using routine diagnostic methods according to current ATS/IDSA recommendations [26]. Thus, a strategy of active...
We compared CURB-65 (a clinical prediction rule based on Confusion, Uremia, Respiratory rate, Blood Pressure, and age)predicted mortality with actual 30-day mortality.RESULTSWe identified 628 patients with aspiration pneumonia, of which 510 were community-acquired. Median age was 77 years, with ...
[35]and the overallmortality rateis <5%. Among the community-acquired pneumonia cases that require hospitalization, the mortality rate can be as high as 40% in those admitted to ICUs. Community-acquired pneumonia is typically caused by aspiration of bacteria that normally reside in theoropharynx,...