Pulmonology News

A significant number of low-risk patients who visited the ED for acute pulmonary embolism were hospitalized despite evidence supporting outpatient management, according to a recent study.

A 20-month-old male presents with acute onset of emesis, altered mental status and fever. Soon after admission to the pediatric ICU, he began having seizures and became obtunded.

More older patients with COPD, dementia or kidney failure had a palliative care consultation shortly after admission through a default ordering system vs. usual care, according to study results published in JAMA.

Gabapentinoid use was associated with severe exacerbation among users with COPD, supporting warnings from regulatory agencies about potentially serious adverse effects of the drugs, according to researchers.

Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.

Among adolescents, e-cigarette use during late pregnancy was not statistically significantly associated with an increased small for gestational age birth risk, but cigarette use was, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Women who quit smoking and were treated with the GLP-1 receptor agonist dulaglutide were less likely to experience substantial weight gain compared with those who received placebo, according to researchers.

SARS-CoV-2 rebound risk is more likely related to the individual person, rather than reinfection or resistance to treatment such as Paxlovid, according to two studies.

For individuals with an incidentally detected lung nodule who are ineligible for lung cancer screening based on age, a lung nodule program may catch lung cancer early, according to results published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

Daily toothbrushing was linked to a significantly decreased risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia, or HAP, as well as lower rates of ICU mortality, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.