Are there more differences or similarities between the hospital-acquired pneumonia guidelines?

Hospital-acquired pneumonia: coverage and treatment adequacy of current guidelines.

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) guideline for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) released in 1996 and the Trouillet classification published in 1998 supply different rational foundations for the classification of patients with HAP and for the selection of initial antibiotic therapy. The aims of this study were to assess the level of bacterial coverage and to assess and validate the adequacy ...

Hospital acquired pneumonia.

Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) is defined as pneumonia that occurs 48 hours or longer after hospital admission and excludes any infection that is incubating at the time of admission1. It is also commonly termed nosocomial pneumonia. Ventilator-associated pneumonia is widely recognised as pneumonia developing after at least 48 hours of mechanical ventilation (MV), and can be considered a subg...

Unravelling the Pathogenesis of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia: Are There Possible Insights From High Altitude?

Hospital-acquired pneumonia in Europe.

T he appropriate management and prevention of hospitalacquired pneumonia (HAP) remain major medical challenges. Much work has been done in this field in the last two decades, which has been constantly summarised in several extensive reviews [1–6]. Unsurprisingly, many issues regarding diagnosis, treatment and prevention of HAP continue to be highly controversial. Some issues have recently only ...

Bacteriological differences between COPD exacerbation and community-acquired pneumonia.

OBJECTIVE To study the differences in pathogen distribution and antibiotic susceptibility between patients with COPD exacerbation and patients with community-acquired pneumonia, and develop guidance for antibiotic treatment of those conditions. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 586 COPD-exacerbation patients and 345 community-acquired-pneumonia patients from January ...