Search results for "Drug resistance"
Disseminated varicella infection in an immunocompromised patient
A patient with a history of liver transplant presented with a progressive rash.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/03/free/disseminated-varicella-infection-in-an-immunocompromised-patient.htm
3 Apr 2024
Drug-resistance score helped guide antibiotic use in ED patients with pneumonia
Electronically calculating the newly developed score reduced initial empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic use compared to using health care-associated pneumonia criteria.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/15/3.htm
15 May 2019
January 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
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IDSA releases guidance on antibiotic selection for gram-negative antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections
New treatment guidance from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) focused on extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with difficult-to-treat resistance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/2.htm
16 Sep 2020
January 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/
Inpatient antibiotic stewardship programs decreased antibiotic use but not infection rates
Although the nine studied hospitals successfully decreased their use of targeted antibiotics, rates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa did not improve.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/22/5.htm
22 Jul 2020
Delirium, treating drug resistance, fall prevention
A 75-year-old woman with a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is evaluated in the intensive care unit for delirium... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/test.htm
15 Jan 2009
Program to rapidly identify and contain cases of CRE is achieving improvements, CDC finds
Rates of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) declined from 2006 to 2015, but testing in 2017 did identify 221 isolates expressing carbapenemases other than Klebsiella pneumoniae.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/11/3.htm
11 Apr 2018
Acute kidney injury, racial disparities
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/recent-research.htm
15 Jan 2020
Acinetobacter baumannii infections increasingly resistant to antibiotics
The highest prevalence of resistance was to doripenem (90.3%), followed by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (55.3%). The lowest rate of resistance was to colistin at 5.3%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/09/16/4.htm
16 Sep 2015