Esta guía de práctica clínica provee recomendaciones informadas en la evidencia para el control de la infección, recolección de muestras, cuidado de soporte, tratamiento farmacológico y prevención de complicaciones.
Las recomendaciones están dirigidas a todo el personal de salud que atiende a los...
This guideline provides recommendations for the management of suspected and confirmed community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults. However, it does not provide recommendations on areas of care where best practice is already established, such as diagnosis using chest X-ray. This guideline does no...
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, reached all parts of the world within a year, causing epidemics of varying magnitude. During the pandemic period, the World Health Organization (WHO) received reports of over 18 000 laboratory-confirmed deaths due to infection with t...
Torres, Antoni;
Niederman, Michael S;
Chastre, Jean;
Ewig, Santiago;
Fernandez-Vandellos, Patricia;
Hanberger, Hakan;
Kollef, Marin;
Bassi, Gianluigi Li;
Luna, Carlos M;
Martin-Loeches, Ignacio;
Paiva, J. Artur;
Read, Robert C;
Rigau, David;
Timsit, Jean François;
Welte, Tobias;
Wunderink, Richard.
Nosocomial pneumonia is a frequent infection that is classified into two groups [1]: HAP, which develops
in hospitalised patients after 48 h of admission, and does not require (but may include) artificial
ventilation at the time of diagnosis [2, 3]; and VAP, which occurs in intensive care unit (ICU) pati...
