Aspiration Pneumonia
The effect of a daily application of a 0.05% chlorhexidine oral rinse solution on the incidence of aspiration pneumonia in nursing home residents: a multicenter study
... nosocomial pneumonia and ventilator associ- ated pneumonia (VAP) ...and aspiration pneumonia and the absence of evidence re- garding which oral hygiene care program or which in- terventions ...
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Capacity of the Pectoralis Major Muscle May Be a Prognostic Factor for Aspiration Pneumonia
... with aspiration pneumonia as a primary versus coexisting disease, and 2) pa- tients who survived versus patients who died within each primary and coexisting disease ...
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Pilot study for risk assessment of aspiration pneumonia based on oral bacteria levels and serum biomarkers
... (aspiration pneumonia) group, 14 patients were at 1 point and 8 pa- tients, at 2 points, whereas in the CAP (community-ac- quired pneumonia) group, 10 patients were at 1 point and 10 patients, at 2 ...
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Antibacterial treatment of aspiration pneumonia in older people: a systematic review
... Materials and methods: EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Cochrane databases were systematically searched for studies that examined the clinical efficacy of antibiotic treatment in elderly patients with aspiration ...
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Effectiveness of azithromycin in aspiration pneumonia: a prospective observational study
... with pneumonia hospitalized at Kishiwada City Hospital (a 400- bed community hospital in Kishiwada City, Osaka, Japan) from December 2011 to June ...acquired pneumonia (HAP), or nursing and ...
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Comparison of clinical characteristics and outcomes between aspiration pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... Aspiration pneumonia (AsP) is assumed to be one of the phenotypes of CAP. AsP demonstrates specific clinical features [10, 11], such as frequent occurrence in elderly pa- tients, greater severity of ...
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Dynamics of microbiota during mechanical ventilation in aspiration pneumonia
... frequently used to evaluate the causative bacteria [20–22]. The dynamics of the bacterial flora in the lower respiratory tract in mechanically ventilated pa- tients are evaluated as follows [29–31]. Berdal and colleagues ...
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Effect of starting oral intake on weekends on the clinical course of patients with aspiration pneumonia
... Our study has several limitations that warrant consid- eration. First, this study has a retrospective design, which is associated with various well-known limitations. Second, we only evaluated patients at three sites. ...
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Rate of aspiration pneumonia in hospitalized Parkinson’s disease patients: a cross-sectional study
... and aspiration in PD patients [7, ...developing aspiration pneumonia when compared to the general popu- lation ...[11]. Aspiration pneumonia has been reported as the most frequent cause ...
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Aspiration and Non-Aspiration Pneumonia in Hospitalized Children With Neurologic Impairment
... for aspiration pneumonia by subjective suspicion rather than affirmation from hard ...distinguish aspiration pneumonia in children with ...with aspiration versus nonaspiration ...
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Can we use influencing factors to predict aspiration pneumonia in the United Kingdom?
... There is a strong body of research around the prevalence of different medical conditions and the development of aspiration pneumonia [6,21,22,24]. Our study highlighted that COPD and/or Cerebral vascular ...
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Aspiration Pneumonia in Pediatric Age Group: Etiology, Predisposing Factors and Clinical Outcome
... pediatric aspiration pneumonia patients according to the categories of aspiration syndromes, alongwith the factors predisposing the pulmonary ...
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Defining characteristics and risk indicators for diagnosing nursing home-acquired pneumonia and aspiration pneumonia in nursing home residents, using the electronically-modified Delphi Method
... home-acquired) pneumonia, no additional expert-rating iterations have been performed because more than three expert-rating iterations do not usually yield improve- ment of concurrence ...diagnosis ...
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Factors involved in the discontinuation of oral intake in elderly patients with recurrent aspiration pneumonia: a multicenter study
... According to the need for the discontinuation (temporary termination) of oral intake due to reaspiration during the hospitalization course, each subject was assigned to either a “no reaspiration of intake” or a ...
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Impact of Fundoplication Versus Gastrojejunal Feeding Tubes on Mortality and in Preventing Aspiration Pneumonia in Young Children With Neurologic Impairment Who Have Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
... We were unable to determine whether either treat- ment group continued with oral intake. If continued oral intake were more common in one of the groups it could contribute to differences in the frequency of ...
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Bacteriology of Aspiration Pneumonia in Children
... adults has been extensively studied recently, with the use of transtracheal aspiration (TTA) to bypass normal oral flora.”2 Anaerobic organisms were iso- bated from most cases of aspirat[r] ...
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Predictors of improved functional outcome in elderly inpatients after rehabilitation: a retrospective study
... (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Data were described by the mean ± standard deviation. Correlation between FIM scores at admission and discharge with oral condition, BMI, and pres- ence of diseases such as ...
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Hospice and Palliative Care: A New Movement in India
... Imaging aspiration pneumonia and its ...diagnose aspiration, to determine its cause, and to detect its complications earlier, other investigations include blood tests which should be done and it ...
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Fatal complications of endoluminal stent insertion before preoperative chemoradiotherapy for distal esophageal cancer: A case series
... A 68-year-old Caucasian male presented with a three-month history of moderate to severe dysphagia. He did not have any clinical or laboratory evidence of malnutrition. Upper endoscopy with biopsies identified moderately ...
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Microbiology of Empyema in Children and Adolescents
... Because anaerobic bacteria are frequently re- covered from empyema associated with aspiration pneumonia, lung abscesses, subdiaphragmatic ab- scesses, and oral-dental infection, their pr[r] ...
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