All articles tagged: Pneumonia, unspecified organism (J18.9)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Capvaxive pneumococcal 21-valent conjugate vaccine for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia in adults.Capvaxive is specifically designed to help protect adults against the serotypes that cause the majority of invasive pneumococcal disease cases, inc

There are considerable barriers relating to implementation of a "no antibiotic" strategy for mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in Pediatrics.Julia E. Szymczak, Ph.D., from the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, and colleagues conducted semistructure

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is tracking a measles outbreak, which so far has sickened eight city residents.Philadelphia health care staff are "working to identify everyone who may have been exposed, checking their vaccine status, warning them that they may have been exposed, and issuing quarantine and exclusion recommendations w

An intervention that replaces biomass fuel (e.g., wood, dung, or agricultural crop waste) with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking does not affect the incidence of severe pneumonia among infants, according to a study published in the Jan. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.Noting that household air pollution is a risk

For patients undergoing elective cardiac catheterization, eating a heart-healthy diet prior to the procedure poses no safety risk, according to a study published online Jan. 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care.Carri Woods, R.N., from the Parkview Heart Institute in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and colleagues conducted a prospective rando

Brain health after COVID-19 is impaired, but no more than that seen for patients hospitalized for other medical conditions of similar severity, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in JAMA Network Open.Costanza Peinkhofer, M.D., from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues examined whether long-term cognitiv

Daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients is associated with lower rates of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and improved outcomes, according to a review published online Dec. 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Selina Ehrenzeller, M.D., and Michael Klompas, M.D., M.P.H., from Harvard University in Boston, conducted a systematic li

Standard artificial intelligence (AI) models improve diagnostic accuracy, but systematically biased AI models reduce this accuracy, according to a study published in the Dec. 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Sarah Jabbour, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined the impact of sys

A conservative strategy of withholding intubation is associated with clinical benefit in comatose patients with acute poisoning, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the annual Critical Care Canada Forum, held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 in Toronto.Yonathan Freund, M

For patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), doxycycline is associated with a reduced risk for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the American Journal of Infection Control.Ashley L. O'Leary, Pharm.D., from the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System i

"Davey" Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung transplant … and a set of DD breast implants.Doctors at Northwestern Medicine crafted an artificial lung to keep Bauer, 34, alive after rem

For critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation for at least three days, a three-day course of inhaled amikacin reduces the subsequent burden of ventilatory-associated pneumonia, according to a study published online Oct. 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was published to coincide with the annual congress of th