Search results for "Antibiotics"
Initially inappropriate antibiotic therapy lengthens sepsis patients' stay by two days
Nearly one-third of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock attributable to Gram-negative organisms receive inappropriate antibiotic therapy at first, which prolongs their hospital stay by two days on average, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/12/4.htm
12 Jan 2011
February 28, 2024
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Antibiotic diversity may prevent resistance to ESKAPE organisms
Antibiotic strategies that promote diversity may help prevent resistance of ESKAPE pathogens in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/09/28/2.htm
28 Sep 2011
January 11, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/
Prior antibiotic use associated with higher mortality in Gram-negative sepsis inpatients
Recent antibiotic use is associated with greater hospital mortality in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock attributed to Gram-negative bacteremia, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/27/3.htm
27 Jul 2011
Disseminated varicella infection in an immunocompromised patient
A patient with a history of liver transplant presented with a progressive rash.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/03/free/disseminated-varicella-infection-in-an-immunocompromised-patient.htm
3 Apr 2024
Ward-level antibiotic use predicts C. difficile risk
Inpatients' risk of developing Clostridium difficile is related to the rate of antibiotic prescribing on their wards, regardless of whether they themselves took an antibiotic, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/04/2.htm
4 Mar 2015
Adverse effects of antibiotics compared for patients hospitalized with infection
A randomized clinical trial at one academic medical center in the U.S. found that piperacillin-tazobactam and cefepime carried similar risk of acute kidney injury but cefepime was associated with more neurological dysfunction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/18/adverse-effects-of-antibiotics-compared-for-patients-hospitalized-with-infection.htm
18 Oct 2023
August 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/
Five days of antibiotics for CAP worked as well as physician-directed therapy
A control group took antibiotics for a median of 10 days, compared to 5 in the intervention group. In an intention-to-treat analysis, clinical success rates were similar between groups at day 10 and day 30.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/2.htm
3 Aug 2016