eMedicine: Hospital Acquired Infections (Health/Infectious_Diseases)
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Description: Physician reports on the viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens likely to cause nosocomial... infections such as pneumonia, urinary tract infection, colitis, and candidiasis. Includes medical care and prevention tips.HospitalAcquired Infections Hospitalacquired infections encompass almost all clinically evident infections that do not originate from patients original admitting diagnosis. Within hours after admission, a patients flora begins to acquire characteristics of the surrounding bacterial pool. Most infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospitalacquired. Infections that occur after the patients discharge from the hospital can be considered to have a nosocomial origin if the organisms were acquired during the hospital
Specializes in: hospitalacquired infections nosocomial infection vancomycinresistant enterococcus vre methicillinresistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa pseudomonas candidiasis... legionella respiratory syncytial virus

eMedicine Bacterial Pneumonia (Health/Respiratory_Disorders)
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Description: Article covering clinical information, diagnosis, and treatment. Includes prescribing... information, pictures and Xrays.Pneumonia, Bacterial Medical practitioners have known of pneumonia since ancient times. Hippocrates indoctrinated his students about peripneumonia, which, for the ancient healers, had a connotation of an acute illness either with pain in the side or with severe dyspnea. The term acquired a more punctilious meaning as the study of morbid anatomy and physical diagnosis progressed over the last few centuries. Morgagni contributed the concept of solidification of the lung. Laennec, the father of pulmonary medicine, described pathological stages
Specializes in: pneumonia bacterial pneumococcus streptococcus pneumoniae pneumoniae haemophilus influenzae influenzae staphylococcus aureus... aureus legionella