Eleven of those 22 hospitalized patients had pneumonia and eight patients were treated in an intensive care unit.
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Of about 100 patients with pneumonia, 15 required ventilators to help breathe, the Army said.
But they are seeing more and more patients with pneumonia and other respiratory complaints, as well as some serious burns cases: some of those sheltering in tents after their houses were destroyed have been trying to heat them.
The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media reported.
The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media report.
In a study out today at a big infectious disease conference, it compared its best selling antibiotic Zyvox to the older gold-standard drug vancomycin in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Under ObamaCare, the government has begun imposing financial penalties on hospitals deemed to be readmitting too many Medicare patients within 30 days for pneumonia, heart failure, or myocardial infarct (heart attack).
The researchers associated increases in multidrug-resistant MRSA in the hospital with excessive use of two specific classes of antibiotics often prescribed to treat pneumonia (fluoroquinolones) and offered as a substitute for patients allergic to penicillin (macrolides).
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Once a rough picture of the virus' genes was put together, it served as a foundation for diagnostics that can tell whether patients have SARS rather than garden-variety viral pneumonia.
Before he left, there had already been the first reports of patients returning from the battlefield with wound infections, pneumonia and other problems caused by a bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii, which is rarely seen in the United States.
Another rampant problem is ventilator-associated pneumonia, which afflicts anywhere from 10% to 25% of patients on the machines.
It is possible that some of the patients in Mexico, many of whom are dying of pneumonia, are succumbing to secondary infections.
These secure Web sites have played a pivotal role in beginning to understand the coronavirus that causes SARS, and in beginning to identify which patients are at the highest risk of dying from the pneumonia.
AstraZeneca says that it has not found any evidence of pneumonia risk in studies it has conducted in more than 100, 000 patients who were taking its drugs, Prilosec and Nexium.
The main culprit in the cinnamon powder is actually derived from tree bark and contains cellulose, an undigestible fiber capable of producing a strong inflammatory response in lung tissue, leading to long term wheezing and a chronic cough, potentially placing patients at further risk for bouts of pneumonitis or even aspiration pneumonia.
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Parkinson's itself doesn't kill people, but patients with advanced cases die of complications such as injuries from falling and pneumonia.
At hospitals large and small, raising the head of the bed for patients on ventilators, brushing patients' teeth and taking other precautions have dramatically reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia, another common and costly infection.
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Laheij says patients should stop gobbling Prilosec like candy, especially those who are susceptible to pneumonia complications (the elderly and people with asthma or weakened immune systems).
While not dangerous, and often symptomless in more healthy patients, in the elderly, weak or immuno-suppressed, MRSA can cause fever and pneumonia.
In one of the first studies to address this issue, Netherlands epidemiologist Robert Laheij culled medical records of 365, 000 patients and found that people taking proton pump inhibitors had a 90% higher risk of getting pneumonia than a control group not taking the drugs.
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