Preventing Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Elderly Patients: An Achievable Goal?doi:10.1097/00045413-199705000-00012&NAClinical Pulmonary Medicine
The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Immunization Trial in Adults (CAPiTA) is an industry-sponsored (Pfizer) trial with the primary objective of showing the efficacy of a polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in preventing pneumococcal pneumonia in adults. This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind...
Pneumonia involves an acute inflammatory process of the lung parenchyma caused by infectious agents that can lead to alveolar consolidation and pulmonary infiltrates. Pneumonia is classified as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or...
Pneumococcal Pneumonia, the Exploiter A case of influenza opens the door and invites oxygen-robbing respiratory infection, specifically pneumonia. When this occurs, the pneumonia is deemed “secondary.” It is especially likely and potentially fatal in the elderly, the very young, and patients who h...
In their latest contribution to our exchange, Hollingsworth and Isturiz say that the effectiveness of PPV23 in preventing non-bacteremic (or non-invasive) pneumococcal pneumonia (NPP) or all-cause community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) "has not been established".5 This statement is the foundation for...
Oral care measures for preventing nursing home-acquired pneumonia: ProtocolsThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess effects of oral care measures for preventing nursing home-acquired pneumonia in residents of nursing homes and other long-term...
9. Wan K,Ng MY,Wong YT. New horizon on community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(CA-MRSA) skinand softtissueinfection: nanotechnologyantimicrobial spray.HK J Emerg Med 2011; 18:432-6.10. Li W,Ma X,Peng Y,Cao J,Loo TY,Hao L, et al.Applica-tion of a nano-antimicrobia...
medications withmultiple indications, requiring physiciansto write indications can assist pharmacists in assessing appropriatetherapy. Also, preprinted order sets based on published guidelinesare recommended for such diagnoses as community-acquired pneumonia,acute myocardial infarction, and patient-controlled ...
Community-acquired pneumonia: Identifying and treating severe disease Note ominous prognostic signs; seek the cause, but start empiric therapy at once The mortality associated with severe community-acquired pneumonia remains... MG Calalang,A Fein 被引量: 0发表: 1999年 ...
The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on outcome and practice in trauma: Past, present and future Since the initial description of a concentrated outbreak of pneumocystis carnii pneumonia in 1981, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunode... MD Grossman,SP Stawicki - 《...