Search results for "Pneumonia"
Conservative airway strategy may improve outcomes in comatose patients with acute poisoning
Patients who were randomized to no intubation unless they met an emergency criterion did better on a composite end point of in-hospital death and length of ICU and hospital stay than those treated under routine practice, a French trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/conservative-airway-strategy-may-improve-outcomes-in-comatose-patients-with-acute-poisoning.htm
6 Dec 2023
Benzodiazepines associated with community-acquired pneumonia
Benzodiazepines are associated with risk for and death from community-acquired pneumonia, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/12/12/1.htm
12 Dec 2012
Thinking about how you treat
The new field of management reasoning holds potential to improve medical education and practice, researchers say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/thinking-about-how-you-treat.htm
21 Jun 2023
ACE inhibitors but not ARBs may decrease pneumonia risk
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are associated with a decreased risk for pneumonia, but angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are not, a new study indicates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/07/18/1.htm
18 Jul 2012
Systemic corticosteroids improved outcomes in CAP, meta-analysis finds
Patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) had significantly lower risk of 30-day all-cause mortality or acute respiratory distress syndrome and shorter time to clinical stability if they were randomized to systemic corticosteroids as adjunctive therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/01/systemic-corticosteroids-improved-outcomes-in-cap-meta-analysis-finds.htm
1 Nov 2023
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates: The wrong quality measure
Legislators, payers and quality-of-care advocates across the nation are considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates as a way to benchmark quality of care and penalize poor performers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/vap-qm.htm
15 Dec 2007
Nutrition, contrast and AKI, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2020
Acute kidney injury, racial disparities
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/recent-research.htm
15 Jan 2020
Doxycycline for CAP associated with lower C. diff risk than azithromycin
In a retrospective study of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, treatment with doxycycline instead of azithromycin was associated with a particularly significant reduction in risk of Clostridioides difficile infection among those who had already had C. diff within the past year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/08/doxycycline-for-cap-associated-with-lower-c-diff-risk-than-azithromycin.htm
8 Nov 2023
Using corticosteroids (or not)
Review the latest data on prescribing these drugs for pneumonia, sepsis, and COPD.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/using-corticosteroids-or-not.htm
15 May 2019