Search results for "Antibiotic Therapy"
Cases from Hennepin County Medical Center
Cases involving ventricular septal defect, thyrotoxic periodic paralysis, hepatopulmonary syndrome, and others are discussed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/brief-case-hennepin-county-medical-center.htm
15 Sep 2015
Cases from Maine Medical Center
Meningoencephalitis, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, tophaceous gout, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/brief-case-maine-medical-center.htm
15 Nov 2015
Pneumonia
Treatment, documentation, and follow-up for CAP, HCAP, HCAP, and VAP.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/morning-report-pneumonia.htm
15 Jan 2016
Cases from Saint Agnes Hospital
Drug-induced aseptic meningitis, hypothyroidism as a reversible cause of cardiomyopathy, unintentional salicylate overdose, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/brief-case-saint-agnes-hospital.htm
15 Mar 2016
Acute exacerbation of COPD
Diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of acute exacerbation of COPD in a 67-year-old man.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/morning-report-COPD.htm
15 Apr 2016
MKSAP quiz on COPD
Cases involving chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are presented.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/mksap-COPD.htm
15 Apr 2016
Poor outcomes, inappropriate treatment more likely in CAP due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, study finds
P. aeruginosa was found in 4% of studied Spanish patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and of these patients who had antibiogram data available, 32% were found to have multidrug-resistant infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/27/4.htm
27 Apr 2016
Recent Research
Treatment for complicated UTIs and abdominal infections, age-adjusted D-dimer results, ticagrelor vs. aspirin after cerebral ischemic events, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/recent-research.htm
15 Jul 2016
IDSA and ATS release new guidelines for treating hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia
The new recommendations remove the concept of health care-associated pneumonia from these HAP/VAP guidelines and recommend that individual hospitals generate antibiograms to help clinicians choose the optimal antibiotics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/27/2.htm
27 Jul 2016
Table 1. Factors linked to health care- associated pneumoniaHospitalization ...
Regular treatment in an outpatient infusion center. Intravenous antibiotic therapy, chemotherapy, or wound care within the past 30 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/acph-201608-coding-pneumonia-causes_t1.pdf
2 Aug 2016