Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with ...

Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children ... Chicago and associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University ...

The Chinese Medical Association has released new guidelines in the journal Pediatric ... antibiotic use is stressed to combat resistance and improve treatment outcomes. Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia ...

The updated draft pneumonia ... of treatment is just as effective for this group, it reduces the risk of antimicrobial resistance and saves NHS resources. Professor Jonathan Benger, chief medical ...

These guidelines lower the recommended age for this pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine from age 65 to 50, covering millions of currently unprotected people. Scientific American spoke with experts ...

More than 20% of children diagnosed with pneumonia did not receive antibiotics. Treatment failure was slightly more common in children who did not receive antibiotics vs. those who did (10.7 % vs.

2 Current guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommend that preschool-aged children with pneumonia, who are well enough to be treated in an outpatient setting, do not routinely ...

Dr. Niederman served as co-chair of the committees that created the American Thoracic Society's 1993 and 2001 guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and the 1996 and 2005 ...

Objective Antibiotic resistance is increasing globally, associated with many failures in pneumonia treatment ... significant association with rational prescriptions for CAP treatment for pediatrics.

Sinus Infection. 2024. Metlay JP, Waterer GW, Long AC, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. An official clinical practice guideline of the American Thoracic ...

At the same time, pediatric care guidelines ... like childhood pneumonia. When armed with this technology, providers are making better and faster diagnoses and safer treatment decisions right ...