Community-acquired pneumonia is the sixth leading cause of death in the USA. Adherence to the 2007 Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society community-acquired pneumonia guidelines has been associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, choice between guideline-recommended ...
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Community-acquired pneumonia: is it time to shorten the antibiotic treatment?doi:10.1586/14787210.5.6.933Evaluation of: Li JZ, Winston LG, Moore DH, Bent S. Efficacy of short-course antibiotic regimens for community-acquired pneumonia: a meta-analysis. Am. J. Med. 120, 783–790 (2007).%...
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are commonly responsible for community-acquired pneumonia, lafon says. "those tend to cause the typical signs of pneumonia, like fever, cough and difficulty breathing." having the flu can be a direct cause of pneumonia, he adds, or it can predispose people to eventually develop a bacterial ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia You have ventilator-associated pneumonia if you get the infection while using a ventilator, a machine that helps you breathe. Community-acquired pneumonia Most cases are what's called community-acquired pneumonia, which means you didn’t get it in a hospital. ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia You have ventilator-associated pneumonia if you get the infection while using a ventilator, a machine that helps you breathe. Community-acquired pneumonia Most cases are what's called community-acquired pneumonia, which means you didn’t get it in a hospital. ...
This article discusses the problem of antimicrobial resistance and how it affects the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The discussion is limited to infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae and to the treatment of patients hospitalized in a medical ward or an intensive care unit because...
In many cases of community-acquired pneumonia, epidemiological and clinical data allow the well-trained physician to narrow the spectrum of potential aetiologies, as well as to determine the severity of the disease. Furthermore, local variations in the epidemiology and in the patterns of antibiotic...