Antibiotics for acute bronchitis

Antibiotics in acute bronchitis: a meta-analysis.

PURPOSE Most patients with acute bronchitis who seek medical care are treated with antibiotics, although the effectiveness of this intervention is uncertain. We performed a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials to estimate the effectiveness of antibiotics in the treatment of acute bronchitis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS English-language studies published January 1966 to April 1998 were retr...

The use of antibiotics in acute bronchitis and acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.

BACKGROUND Dirythromycin has several pharmacokinetic characteristics (long half life and high tissue concentrations) which suggest the possibility of administering shorter treatments than those conventionally used. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the efficacy of a 5 day treatment with dirythromycin once a day, versus diacetylmidecamycin twice a day over 7 days in the treatmen...

Antibiotics in acute bronchitis and exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: what is general practitioners' habit?

[Acute bronchitis].

Cough is the most common illness-related reason for ambulatory care visits in the United States. Acute bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis characterized by cough due to acute inflammation of the trachea and large airways without evidence of pneumonia. Pneumonia should be suspected in patients with tachypnea, tachycardia, dyspnea, or lung findings suggestive of pneumonia, and radiography is warra...

Acute Bronchitis

Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 40-year-old man with no underlying lung disease has a 7-day history of mild shortness of breath with exertion, as well as cough that is now productive of purulent sputum. He reports no paroxysms of cough and no contact with ill persons in his community. He does not appear to be in distress. His temperature is 37°C, his pulse 84 beats per minute,...