Pneumonia in the elderly. Pneumonia is the fourth overall leading cause of death and is the leading infectious cause of death in the elderly. Half of all pneumonia cases are reporte... M Loeb - 《Postgraduate Medicine》 被引量: 69发表: 1989年 A Clinical Pathway for Treating Pneumonia in ...
Objective To explore the therapeutic effect of noninvasive ventilator in the treatment of senile severe pneumonia.Methods A study was done on 40 senile severe pneumonia patients who were admitted at the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University from October 12, 2015 to November 1, 2017...
PneumoniaBACKGROUND: Pneumonia is one of the most common serious infections, causing two million deaths annually among young children in low-income countries. In high-income countries pneumonia is most significantly a problem of the elderly. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prophylactic and therapeutic ...
The National Health Commission said that tertiary hospitals — large, general hospitals in cities — should devote all efforts to treating elderly and child COVID-19 patients showing serious symptoms, and each hospital should be paired with a specific area and county-level clinics to provide targete...
The year was 1943. As a third-year medical student at Stanford, I was about to witness the beginning of a medical miracle. Dr. Arthur Bloomfield, Professor of Medicine, had selected my patient, a middle aged man, who was dying of acute pneumococcal pneumonia, as one of the first patients...
Myelodysplastic syndromes are to the bone marrow what pneumonia is to the lungs; the response of an organ to a variety of etiologic insults like aging, toxic exposure, infections and auto-immunity. Among infectious causes alone, pneumoni... TJ Hamblin - 《Leukemia Research》 被引量: 8发表: ...
He said most COVID-19 patients suffering viral pneumonia are from vulnerable groups, including people age 65 and above and those living with obesity, multiple chronic diseases, tumors or immunocompromised conditions. He suggested patients deemed at high risk be given antiviral drugs at an early stag...
pneumonia in patients. Also, a thicker solution/suspension taken orally is easier to swallow, especially in elderly patients with stroke, ALS or Parkinson's diseases. Preferred embodiments of the oral suspension are shown in the table below. (The concentration of each ingredient can be varied by...
Primary infectious concerns are Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP), varicella zoster virus (VZV), and cytomegalovirus (CMV). Patients should be placed on prophylactic therapy for PCP and VZV infection/reactivation while on alemtuzumab and for several months thereafter.[51,52] Monitoring for CMV ...
This pathogen is known to cause pneumonia, endocarditis, otitis externa, urinary tract infections, osteomyelitis and sepsis and also may be evident in skin as necrotizing fasciitis or as ecthyma gangrenosum, the latter a sign of pseudomonas sepsis. It is salient that a Shanghai study documented,...