Search results for "Antibiotics"
February 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/
November 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/
Severe sepsis patients getting earlier antibiotics were less likely to develop shock
Each hour until antimicrobial administration was associated with an 8% increase in risk of progression to shock, and time to administration was also associated with in-hospital mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/02/15/2.htm
15 Feb 2017
December 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/
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
January 24, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/
No added benefit of more than 3 days of antibiotics in patients with suspected VAP and minimal ventilator settings, study finds
The following outcomes were compared between patients prescribed one to three days of antibiotics and those prescribed more than three days of antibiotics: time to extubation alive, ventilator death, time to hospital discharge alive, and hospital death.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/11/2.htm
11 Jan 2017
February 21, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/21/
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
September 14, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/14/