• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of patients coming from the community with sepsis due to multidrug resistant bacteria
ConclusionIn light of the prevalence and impact of MDR bacteria causing sepsis in patients coming from the community, physicians should consider ESBL coverage when starting an empiric antibiotic therapy in patients with specific risk factors, especially in the presence of septic shock.
Source: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine - July 4, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research

Monitoring of hospital acquired pneumonia in patients with severe brain injury on first access to intensive neurological rehabilitation: First year of observation.
Authors: Beghi G, De Tanti A, Serafini P, Bertolino C, Celentano A, Taormina G Abstract Nosocomial or hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) is an illness contracted during a hospital stay, generally with onset 48 hours or more after admission to hospital, or within 14 days of discharge from hospital. HAP is divided into subgroups: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), accounting for 86% of hospital acquired pneumonia, and stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP). The incidence of SAP in neurological intensive care units (NICUs) is 4.1-56.6%, in medical intensive care units (MICUs) it is 17-50%, in stroke units it is 3.9-44% ...
Source: Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - May 11, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Monaldi Arch Chest Dis Source Type: research