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Aspiration Pneumonia
- Epidemiology
- Represents <15% of all community acquired Pneumonia
- Risk Factors
- Underlying Neurologic disease or Impairment
- Esophageal dysfunction
- Etiology: Anaerobic Bacteria or Mixed oropharyngeal flora
- Bacteroides
- Peptostreptococcus
- Microaerophilic Streptococcus
- Fusobacterium
- Nocardia
- Pathophysiology
- Necrotizing infection may lead to cavitation
- Affects dependent lung lobes
- Symptoms
- Low grade fever
- Weight loss
- Productive cough with foul smelling Sputum
- Labs
- Sputum Gram Stain unreliable
- Sputum Culture unreliable
- Radiology: Images
- Management: Antibiotics
- First Line
- Clindamycin 450-900 mg IV q8 hours
- Alternative
- Cefoxitin 2 grams IV q8 hours
- Ticarcillin-Clavulanate (Timentin) 3.1 grams IV q6h
- Piperacillin-Tazobactam (Zosyn) 3.375 g IV q6 hours
- First Line
- Prevention
- Evaluate with Swallowing Exam
- Dysphagia Diet for moderate to severe Dysphagia
- References
- Gilbert (2001) Sanford Antimicrobial, p. 28
- Lomotan (1997) Postgrad Med 102(2):225
- Sasaki (1997) Intern Med 36(12):851
Aspiration Pneumonia (C0032290) | |
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| Definition (MSH) | A type of lung inflammation resulting from the aspiration of food, liquid, or gastric contents into the upper RESPIRATORY TRACT. |
| Concepts | Disease or Syndrome (T047) |
| ICD9 | 507.0 |
| MSH | D011015 |
| English | ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA, Aspiration Pneumonias, Inhalation pneumonia, Mendelson's syndrome |
| Spanish | neumonia aspirativa, neumonia por aspiracion, neumonia por inhalacion |
| Parent Concepts | Infection (C0021311), Lung diseases (C0024115), Pneumonia (C0032285), Aspiration pneumonitis (C1761609), Ambiguous concept (C1274012) |
| Sources | COSTAR, CST, DXP, LCH, MSH, MTH, MTHICD9, NCI, NDFRT, OMIM, QMR, RAM, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |