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Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment

This guideline covers preventing bacterial infection in healthy babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age, treating pregnant women whose unborn baby is at risk of infection, and caring for babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age with a suspected or confirmed ...

Appropriate use of short-course antibiotics in common infections: best practice advice from the American College of Physicians

Ann. intern. med; 174 (6), 2021
Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, com...

WHO recommendation on prophylactic antibiotics for women undergoing caesarean section

Direct maternal infections around the time of childbirth account for about one tenth of the global burden of maternal death. Women who develop peripartum infections are also prone to severe morbidity, long-term disabilities such as chronic pelvic pain, fallopian tube blockage and secondary infertility. M...

Guía de práctica clínica para el diagnóstico y manejo de la infección por Helicobacter Pylori en enfermedades gastroduodenales

La infección por Helicobacter pylori (HP) es la infección crónica más común en humanos (1, 2). Se trata de una bacteria gram negativa espiralada, microaerofílica (3) que por su contenido en ureasa, motilidad y capacidad para adherirse al epitelio gástrico puede sobrevivir y proliferar en el medio ...

Recommendations for antibacterial therapy in adults with COVID-19 e an evidence based guideline

Clin. microbiol. infect; 27 (1), 2020
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...

Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of COVID-19. The task-force/consensus guideline of the Brazilian Association of Intensive Care Medicine, the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology and Tisiology

Different therapies are currently used, considered, or proposed for the treatment of COVID-19; for many of those therapies, no appropriate assessment of effectiveness and safety was performed. This document aims to provide scientifically available evidence-based information in a transparent interpretatio...

COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing suspected or confirmed pneumonia in adults in the community

The purpose of this guideline is to ensure the best treatment for adults with suspected or confirmed pneumonia in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic and best use of NHS resources. We have withdrawn our guideline on diagnosing and managing pneumonia in adults until further notice....

Guía de práctica clínica enfermera sobre hemocultivos

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...

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 4: treatment - drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

Since 2007, the guideline development process within the World Health Organization (WHO) has been overseen by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee (GRC), which follows internationally recognized standards such as the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach, to su...

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 1: prevention – tuberculosis preventive treatment

About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, and about 5–10% of those infected develop active TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for active TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’...