• Clinics in chest medicine · Mar 2005

    Review

    Antimicrobial treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia.

    • Jean-Yves Fagon and Jean Chastre.
    • University Paris 5, Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, Paris 75015, France. jean-yves.fagon@egp.aphp.fr
    • Clin. Chest Med. 2005 Mar 1; 26 (1): 97-104.

    AbstractThis article highlights the importance of providing adequate empirical antibiotic therapy for hospital-acquired pneumonia and avoiding the excessive use of antibiotics. To meet these goals, a strategy for the management of suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia should include obtaining reliable pulmonary specimens for direct microscope examination and cultures before new antibiotics are administered.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…