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cariniipneumonia to entities such as chronic interstitial pneumonitis.172, 200Treatment for specific pulmonary pathogens are discussed throughout this chapter, but specific guidelines for HIV/AIDS treatment are lengthy, rapidly changing, and beyond the scope of this chapter. More specific and current ...
Objecttive:The etiological characters of hospital acquired pneumonia(HAP)in the last two years were compared and the prevention methods of main infection routes were made to decrease the morbidity of HAP in surgical ICU. Methods:The patients were enrolled from Jan.2004 to Dec.2005:①artificial air...
NosocomialPneumonias Accountfor15%ofallhospitalassociatedinfections Accountfor27%ofallMICUacquiredinfections Primaryriskfactorismechanicalventilation(risk6to21timestheratefornonventilatedpatients)CDCGuidelineforPreventionofHealthcareAssociatedPneumonias2003Cooketal,AnnInternMed1998;129:433 AACNVAPPracticeAlert Critical...
Arjun Srinivasan, MD, recently sat down with Infection Control Today® to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) effort1 to decrease the inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in hospitals for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) by 90%...
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Invasive mechanical ventilation is a risk factor for the development of pneumonia,1, 2 being the ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) a public health problem. VAP is a hospital-acquired pneumonia which occurs in patients who were subjected to invasive mechanical ventilation, whether through tracheostom...
Aurelien Dinh presented the effectivenes of 3 days (vs 8 days) of beta-lactam antibiotics for hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia (CAP): a randomized non-inferiority double-blind trial. Fresh from the press, with last data from last Friday. The study domain included patients with “non-IC...
Oral care is another basic need in the hygiene of patients. Good oral care is essential to good health, and it helps to prevent pneumonia and mouth infections. An unopened toothbrush sat on his over bed table for days with a tiny tube of toothpaste. When it finally hit me to ask him…...