Pneumonia News

A surge of respiratory syncytial virus, an early start to influenza season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have caused a “tripledemic” in the United States, overwhelming hospitals, experts said.

Hospitalized patients with advanced dementia being fed through a nasogastric tube were at a higher risk for pneumonia than those on careful hand-feeding, according to a study in The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Hospitalization with ventilator-associated pneumonia increased 50% between 2013 and 2019, according to a study presented at CHEST Annual Meeting.

Influenza reached epidemic levels in Chile months earlier than a typical influenza season, just like in several other Southern Hemisphere countries, researchers reported.

Adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease using the nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist finerenone have lower risks for pneumonia and COVID-19, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

WASHINGTON — Three late-breaking studies offered a promising glimpse of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in the pipeline for older adults — including the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine, which showed an overall vaccine efficacy of about 83%.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients who were hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia with co-existing iron deficiency anemia did not have worse outcomes, including mortality, septic shock, acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.

Patients with COVID-19 in the ICU safely and effectively received direct oral challenges for low-risk and unverified penicillin allergies, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in September.

In a new study, most patients with community-acquired pneumonia did not receive testing for influenza, even during influenza season, researchers reported in Chest.