Malik, Sachin;
Hsu, Joe;
Hurwitz Koweek, Lynne;
Ghoshjara, Brian;
Beache, Garth;
Brown, Richard;
Davis, Andrew;
Johri, Amer;
Kligerman, Seth;
Litmanovich, Diana;
Mace, Sharon;
Maroules, Christopher;
Meyersohn, Nandini;
Villines, Todd;
Wann, Samuel;
Weissman, Gaby;
Abbara, Suhny.
Infective endocarditis can involve a normal, abnormal, or prosthetic cardiac valve. The diagnosis is typically made clinically with persistently positive blood cultures, characteristic signs and symptoms, and echocardiographic evidence of valvular vegetations or valvular complications such as abscess, de...
Sieswerda, E;
Boer, M.G.J. de;
Bonten, M. M. J;
Boersma, W. G;
Jonkers, R. E;
Aleva, R. M;
Kullberg, B. J;
Schouten, J. A;
van de Garde, E.M. W;
Verheij, T. J;
van der Eerden, M. M;
Prins, J. M;
Wiersinga, W. J.
The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy constituted a multidisciplinary expert committee to provide evidence-based recommendation for the use of antibacterial therapy in hospitalized adults with a respiratory infection and suspected or proven 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We performed a liter...
El hemocultivo es un método diagnóstico para la detección de bacterias y otros microorganismos en sangre. Es una de las pruebas más eficientes para el diagnóstico de las bacteriemias.
La extracción de hemocultivos está recomendada cuando existe infección o sospecha de infección en pacientes de t...
Optimizar el manejo clínico de la EMI en la población infantojuvenil, con recomendaciones orientadas a lograr la detección precoz y una rápida instauración del tratamiento que permitan reducir la elevada morbilidad y mortalidad asociadas a la enfermedad; Ofrecer a los profesionales sanitarios que de...
Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung
imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...
Pneumonia/diagnostic imaging,
Pneumonia/therapy,
Respiratory Tract Diseases/diagnosis,
Ambulatory Care/organization & administration,
Blood Culture/instrumentation,
Macrolides/therapeutic use,
Doxycycline/therapeutic use,
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Fluoroquinolones/therapeutic use,
Intensive Care Units,
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia/prevention & control
Phlebotomy - the drawing of blood - has been practised for centuries and is still one of the most
common invasive procedures in health care. Each step in the process of phlebotomy affects the
quality of the specimen and is thus important for preventing laboratory error, patient injury and
even death. For...
