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ASA fasting guidelines are only applicable to healthy elective surgery patients. Measuring gastric volume now is not easy, and scintigraphy has remained the gold standard technique for many years. This prospective observational study aim to explore the gastric emptying of type 2 diabetic patients.
To investigate the effects of an individualized nutritional intervention programs (iNIPs) on nutritional status and readmission rate in older adults with pneumonia during hospitalization and 3 and 6 months after discharge.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of an oral omadacycline dosing regimen in the treatment of adults with CABP.
This is an interventional multi-centre study comparing two groups of general practitioners with or without an ultrasound scanner over a period of 6 months. The evaluation focuses on the management of patients for 8 pathologies: - Pneumonia - Pleural effusion - Renal colic - Hepatic colic or cholecystitis - Subcutaneous abscess or cyst - Fracture of long bones - Intra-uterine pregnancy or extra-uterine pregnancy or miscarriage - Phlebitis The principal hypothesis is that there are fewer complementary exams in the group of doctors using ultrasound scanners. The secondary hypotheses are: - There is better patient orientation (emergency care, specialist consultation, return home) in the group of doctors using the ultrasound scanners. - The global cost of the care is lower in the group of doctors using the ultrasound. - Using ultrasound during the consultation decreases the anxiety of the patient. - Using ultrasound increases the duration of the consultation. - There is no difference between the predicted and the real orientation of the patients.
This project aims to study the benefits of probiotics namely Bifidobacterium lactis M8 in treatment of upper and lower respiratory tract infections in young children, which are found common among children in Malaysia aged from 0-24 months.
Infections in nursing home are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Pulmonary infections are known to be the most problematic. In our INCUR observational study of 773 residents, 20.13% of residents had pneumonia during the year of follow-up. On average, the extra cost of pneumopathies was 4,467 euros / patient for the long-term care facility and 3,044 euros for the hospital.
The original intent was to use a manual therapy and therapeutic exercise intervention with older patients with pneumonia post-hospitalization. It was hypothesized that the physical therapy intervention would have a positive impact on posture, physical function, pulmonary function, gait, quality of life, and ultimately readmission. This patient population was found to be not feasible to recruit and the study target population was expanded to include older community dwelling adults with pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or hyperkyphosis.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the healthcare-related infections that is common in critically ill patients, prolongs hospital stay, significantly increases mortality and additional health care costs. Microaspiration of oropharyngeal secretions the primary pathway in the formation of VAP has led researchers to focus on the detection of applications to prevent microbial colonization. Continuous or intermittent oropharyngeal aspiration, open system aspiration versus closed system aspiration, extensive oral care, oropharyngeal aspiration prior to patient positioning are some of these applications. When the patient is turned to position, the outbreak accumulated in the oral cavity is more likely to move to the lower respiratory tract. In this study, it is assumed that aspiration of oropharyngeal secretions prior to each position change will reduce the accumulation of oral secretion in the endotracheal tube cuff and reduce aspiration of contaminated secretion and reduce the risk of developing VIP. This randomized controlled experimental study was planned to confirm the validity of this assumption. This study was a randomized controlled experimental study designed to investigate the effect of oropharyngeal aspiration on decreasing the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. The research was conducted between July 2015 and April 2019 in anesthesiology and reanimation intensive care unit. The study was carried out with 20 patients who underwent oropharyngeal aspiration as needed and 20 patients with oropharyngeal aspiration prior to each change of position.
Legionnaire's disease (LD) is a major cause of both community acquired and nosocomial pneumonia, with Legionella pneumophila serogroup A (Lp1) being the most virulent and the greatest cause of disease. Sample culture of low respiratory tract is considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of LD, however its sensitivity seems to be poor and its performance is technically demanding. The introduction of urinary antigen detection testing (LUA) brought a major advance in LD diagnosis, with upt to 95% of cases in Europe being diagnosed with this method. Despite the high sensitivity of LUA for Lp1, ranging from 80-90%, its negative predictive value is low in other serogroup than Lp1 and therefore, Legionella may be unrecognized as agent of pneumonia. Although underdiagnosed and underreported, LD represents the second most common cause of pneumonia requiring admission in intensive care unit (ICU). Average fatality rate of LD in Europe reaches 10%, but its mortality is considered to be even higher in nosocomial patients. Despite the higher fatality rate in hospitalized LD patients, poor is the knowledge on the risk factors that could induce disease and that increase mortality in the hospitalized population affected by LD. In order to shed more light on this topic a cohort of patients diagnosed with LD in the last 3 years will be retrospectively examined.