Pulmonary aspiration syndromes

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 148-154

  Marik, Paul E ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

aspiration; aspiration pneumonia; aspiration pneumonitis; dysphagia; elderly; stroke; swallow evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HALOPERIDOL; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHENOTHIAZINE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VANCOMYCIN;

ACID ASPIRATION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DECUBITUS; DIFFUSE ASPIRATION BRONCHIOLITIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG ABSCESS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOSE FEEDING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPERINFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE FEEDING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHIOLITIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 79953847138     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e32834397d6     Document Type: Review

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