منابع مشابه
Healthcare-associated pneumonia in the emergency department.
Emergency medicine clinicians frequently diagnose and treat patients with pneumonia. The recent recognition of healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) mandates that emergency medicine clinicians remain current and able to distinguish this from community-acquired pneumonia. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of HCAP from the perspective of the emergency medicine clinician.
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Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital admission decisions, infection control, quality measures for pneumonia care, and empiric antimicrobial therapy.
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OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of implementing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the emergency department (ED) by analyzing case management decisions (admission or discharge, appropriateness and timeliness of antibiotic therapy, complementary tests) and the consequent results (clinical stabilization time, length of hospital stay, r...
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Nursing home-acquired pneumonia (NHAP) is one of the most common infections arising amongst nursing home residents, and its incidence is expected to increase as population ages. The NHAP recommendation for empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, arising from the concept of healthcare-associated pneumonia, has been challenged by recent studies reporting low rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) ...
متن کاملFalse-negative chest radiographs in emergency department diagnosis of pneumonia.
BACKGROUND Emergency department (ED) patients frequently undergo chest x-ray (CXR) to evaluate for pneumonia. The rate of false-negative CXR in patients with pneumonia is unclear. OBJECTIVES Identify patients admitted with pneumonia who were diagnosed by CT despite nondiagnostic CXR. METHODS Retrospective analysis of quality improvement data on adult ED patients admitted with pneumonia over...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0733-8627
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2008.02.005