Study of Antibiotic Consumption Pattern in Hospital Acquired Pneumonia

Which antibiotic for hospital acquired pneumonia caused by MRSA?

Hospital acquired pneumonia.

Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) is defined as pneumonia that occurs 48 hours or longer after hospital admission and excludes any infection that is incubating at the time of admission1. It is also commonly termed nosocomial pneumonia. Ventilator-associated pneumonia is widely recognised as pneumonia developing after at least 48 hours of mechanical ventilation (MV), and can be considered a subg...

Prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae and macrolide resistance in children with community-acquired pneumonia: a case study in a teaching hospital

Background: Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections especially in children, and antibiotics affecting the cell wall do not affect this type of infection. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and macrolide resistance in children with community-acquired pneumonia in Kerman city. Methods: This cross-sectional study...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia in Europe.

T he appropriate management and prevention of hospitalacquired pneumonia (HAP) remain major medical challenges. Much work has been done in this field in the last two decades, which has been constantly summarised in several extensive reviews [1–6]. Unsurprisingly, many issues regarding diagnosis, treatment and prevention of HAP continue to be highly controversial. Some issues have recently only ...

Antibiotic timing in community-acquired pneumonia patients.