Successful vaccination against the main causes of pneumonia will complicate care of remaining cases, say J. Anthony G. Scott and Mike English.
... . “Hospital and family practitioners may wish to modify their approach to men with community-acquired pneumonia in light of the demonstrated higher risk of death these men face,” said Dr. Reade.
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... that the frequency with which critically-ill patients developed ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is approximately the same at a multidisciplinary medical center such as Mayo Clinic compared to ...
... , he adds, the predominant disease at the time of death appeared to have been bacterial pneumonia. There also was evidence that the virus destroyed the cells lining the bronchial tubes, including ...
... , use of a silver-coated endotracheal tube resulted in reduced incidence of pneumonia associated with ventilators, according to a report in the August 20 issue of JAMA. Ventilator-associated pneumonia ...
... shows that only 5 per cent of people admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia had infections caused by organisms that could not be successfully treated with penicillin combined with an " ...
... Health authorities have detected the emergence of a rare but deadly lung-destroying form of pneumonia, sparked by the combination of a skin infection and the common flu.
... researchers at UT Southwestern show that mice infected with a type of severe bacterial pneumonia and subsequently treated with steroids and antibiotics recovered faster and had far less inflammation ...
Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, scientists have found.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel says smokers should be vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia.
... may especially benefit patients with sepsis and bacteremia, which are associated with early death from pneumonia.
"Our study adds to the accumulating evidence that statin use is associated with ...
Individuals who take cholesterol-lowering statins before being hospitalized with pneumonia appear less likely to die within 90 days afterward, according to a new report.
... in these genomic vital signs, which could significantly improve their ability to recover from pneumonia," Cobb says.
Interestingly, the researchers noted that as the health of the patients with ...
Statins, the drugs widely used to control cholesterol, may have another beneficial effect: lowering the risk of death from pneumonia.
... -borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated, is among the ...
