Here is an article contains information regarding hospital-acquired pneumonia, the pathophysiology, diagnosis and the treatment. There are also contain informations: the CDC criteria for nosocomial pneumonia, Modified Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score, and Causative organisms and empiric treatment.
Archives for Pulmonology
The Overlap of Asthma and COPD – The Management Strategies
There are descriptions about the pathophysiology and the unique pathogenic characteristics of COPD and asthma, early diagnosis of COPD, the staging of disease severity, the use of FEV1 reduction as a prognostic indicator, the latest pharmacological therapy for mild, moderate, and severe COPD and asthma, and smoking cessation approaches that primary care providers can adopt for the prevention of COPD.
The Role of Nurse in The Acute Asthma Management, a Guideline
Below we provide you with a guideline mainly for nurse in the management of acute asthma patient. The role of nurse is taking an important action since nurse has an active role in coordinating effective asthma management and delivering developmentally-appropriate asthma self-management skill. May this guideline help you in your duty.
What you will find [...]
2009 Updated Guideline of Acute Asthma
Items such Assessment of Severity, Bronchodilators, Corticosteroids, Additional Therapies, Delivery Devices such a Metered Dose Inhaler, Discharge plan and clear instructions concerning individual asthma risk profile, Clinical Assessment, and Treatment of Acute Asthma (oxygen, anticholinergics, iv magnesium sulfate, aminophylin, intubated actions) are in detailed and clear description.
