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Healthcare-associated pneumonia can be defined as pneumonia in a patient with at least one of the following risk factors: hospitalization in an acute care hospital for two or more days in the last 90 days; residence in a nursing home or long-term care facility in the last 30 days
Nursing care plans provide continuity of care, safety, quality care and compliance. A nursing care plan promotes documentation and is used for reimbursement purposes such as Medicare and Medicaid . The therapeutic nursing plan is a tool and a legal document that contains priority problems or needs specific to the patient and the nursing ...
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is the second most common nosocomial infection and accounts for approximately one-fourth of all infections in the intensive care unit (ICU). [48] HAP, or nosocomial pneumonia, is a lower respiratory infection that was not incubating at the time of hospital admission and that presents clinically two or more days ...
Roughly 1 million adults in the U.S. seek hospital care due to pneumonia and 50,000 people die from it ... Both doctors say that the people most at risk for pneumonia include those over the age of ...
In the frail elderly good oral health care may lower the risk of aspiration pneumonia, [102] even though there is no good evidence that one approach to mouth care is better than others in preventing nursing home acquired pneumonia. [103] Zinc supplementation in children 2 months to five years old appears to reduce rates of pneumonia. [104]
The purpose of the PSI is to classify the severity of a patient's pneumonia to determine the amount of resources to be allocated for care. Most commonly, the PSI scoring system has been used to decide whether patients with pneumonia can be treated as outpatients or as (hospitalized) inpatients.
Therapy interventions for respiratory compromise target secondary effects of the condition, which manifest as pulmonary pathologies or aggravate existing pulmonary conditions. Appropriately administered antibiotic therapy can reduce the risk of mortality in patients with moderate to severe pneumonia , and timely ventilation therapy can reduce ...
Pneumonia and sepsis are the most common triggers, and pneumonia is present in up to 60% of patients and may be either causes or complications of ARDS. Alcohol excess appears to increase the risk of ARDS. [47] Diabetes was originally thought to decrease the risk of ARDS, but this has shown to be due to an increase in the risk of pulmonary edema.