When treating patients with hospital-acquired or ventilator-acquired pneumonia, providers should consider keeping the maximum course of antibiotic treatment to seven days, according to new guidelines ...

Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients - and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study by investigators from Brigham and ...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is predicable with a short list of risk factors, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers analyzed 119 cases of ...

A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Toothbrushing was also linked to fewer days on mechanical ventilation and lower ICU mortality rates. The ...

Toothbrushing also associated with lower rates of ICU mortality, shorter duration of mechanical ventilation, and shorter ICU length of stay Researchers say toothbrushing could be a cheap but effective ...

There are more than seven main types of pneumonia, including community-acquired pneumonia caused by bacteria and viruses. Other types include walking, aspiration, chemical, and hospital-acquired ...

James Massie, an Army veteran and a patient at the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Virginia, gets his teeth brushed by nursing assistant Teresa Quarles. The Salem VA reprioritized oral ...

The authors sought to assess the effectiveness of short vs prolonged-course antibiotic administration for hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill adults (most of whom had VAP) by conducting a ...

Nov. 11, 2004 — Dental plaque (DP) may be a reservoir of pathogens for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), according to the results of a prospective study published in the November issue of Chest.