Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia - Standard Treatment Guidelines supriya kashyap kashyap14 Dec 2016 9:37 AM ISTCommunity acquired pneumonia affects 2 to 3 million patients per year and carries high mortality of around 30% in severe cases. As life expectancy is...
Are Steroids beneficial and safe in Pneumonia? Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli19 Dec 2017 8:30 PM ISTDr.Stern A and associates in a review examined effects of treating people with pneumonia using corticosteroids on numbers of deaths, response to...
Five antibiotic strategies to be avoided in pediatric patients : AAP Hina Zahid19 Nov 2018 8:28 PM ISTThe American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP has offered five antibiotic strategies clinicians should question or avoid in pediatric patients, as part of...
Steroids reduce ICU stay and mortality risk in severe community-acquired pneumonia Medha Baranwal Baranwal3 April 2019 8:20 PM ISTChinese Researchers have found that systemic corticosteroids reduce the length of ICU stay and mortality risk in severe community-acquired...
Omadacycline for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia Medha Baranwal Baranwal12 April 2019 7:25 PM ISTDELHI: Omadacycline, a new once-daily aminomethylcycline antibiotic agent, is non-inferior to moxifloxacin for the treatment of community-acquired...
Bacteremic Pneumonia increases ICU admissions, hospital stays in children Medha Baranwal Baranwal24 Jun 2019 7:20 PM ISTThe presence of community-acquired pneumonia and bacteremia results in longer hospital stays, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and invasive...
EMA validates authorisation of Lefamulin for community-acquired pneumonia treatment Medha Baranwal Baranwal26 Jun 2019 7:25 PM ISTEuropean Medicines Agency validates authorisation of Lefamulin for community-acquired pneumonia treatment.The marketing authorization application...
Rare case of Antisynthetase syndrome presenting as interstitial lung disease-A report Deepanjana Sarkar15 Aug 2019 6:00 PM ISTA rare case of Antisynthetase syndrome presenting as interstitial lung disease was reported in the Journal of Medical Case Reports.Antisynthetase...
Routine Flu vaccination in Pneumonia patients reduces disease recurrence, finds study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli15 Oct 2019 7:15 PM ISTFlu vaccination protects against influenza and that is the reason precisely why yearly flu shots are recommended but a new study finds an added...
AIIMS releases antibiotic guidance for Community acquired pneumonia Hina Zahid5 Nov 2019 7:00 PM ISTAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi has released AIIMS Antibiotics Policy which has been prepared by the Department of Medicine with...
Mucocutaneous inflammatory lesions in children linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae Medha Baranwal Baranwal30 Dec 2019 8:20 PM ISTSwitzerland: Mucocutaneous disease occurs commonly in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) than in children with CAP...
Community acquired pneumonia clinical guideline released by ATS/IDSA Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli3 Oct 2019 7:00 PM ISTCommunity-acquired pneumonia or CAP by definition is pneumonia acquired outside a hospital setting. Many things can cause pneumonia, which causes the...
