Severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) remains one of the leading causes of
admission to the intensive care unit, thus consuming a large share of resources and is …

Introduction and objectives Exogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is a lung inflammatory
disease with low prevalence and has the feature of external lipid substances presented in …

Background There is still a lack of effective scoring criteria for assessing the severity of
pulmonary infection associated with changes in the endobronchial lining of the bronchus in …

Background Aspiration pneumonia (AP) is an infectious process causing high rates of
mortality. The purpose of this study was: 1, to describe the incidence from 2003 to 2013 of …

Background: In intensive care units (ICUs), the morbidity and mortality of ventilator-
associated pneumonia (VAP) are relatively high, and this condition also increases medical …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus with
higher transmissibility compared with SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East …

Background The utility of bronchoscopy in the treatment of patients with ventilator-
associated pneumonia (VAP) has been proposed, although prior research has yielded …

Materials and methods The study was an open-label randomized control trial and included
76 adult subjects mechanically ventilated due to aspiration pneumonitis, half the subjects …

(1) Background: The aim of our study is to investigate the effectiveness of bronchoscopic
airway clearance therapy (B-ACT) on severe pneumonia (SP) patients with invasive …

Endotracheal suctioning is an essential but labor-intensive procedure, with the risk of
serious complications. A brand new automatic closed-suction device was developed to …