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Thursday, 04/22/2010
Rethinking the concepts of community-acquired and health-care-associated pneumonia
Prof. Antoni Torres suggests a reassignment of the criteria for health-care-associated pneumonia in an article published in Lancet Infectious Diseases which has an impact factor of 13.17
Prof. Antoni Torres, coordinator and team leader of the group Applied Research in Respiratory Infections-IAMR, has just published an article in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. Carried out along with Santiago Ewig, Tobias Welte and Jean Chastre, this review suggests a reassignment of the criteria for health-care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) in order to solve the problems caused by misleading and confusing definitions of health-care-associated pneumonia.
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Monday, 04/12/2010
Validation of the American Thoracic Society-Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit
The study led by Dr. Miquel Ferrer, Senior Researcher of the group IAMR , was published last April the 1st
The 2005 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society–Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for managing hospital-acquired pneumonia classified patients according to time of onset and risk factors for potentially drug-resistant microorganisms to select the empirical antimicrobial treatment. We assessed the microbial prediction and validated the adequacy of these guidelines for antibiotic strategy.
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Tuesday, 03/30/2010
The Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP) has awarded grants to two research projects of the IAMR group in the 2010 call for applications
The IAMR research team was successful in the 2010 call for grant applications by the Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP). The prizes were awarded in the Palau de Congressos de Girona last 26-27 March, during the 28th Pneumology Day
Dr. Carlos Agustí and researcher Carmen Mª Lucena Pozo from IAMR, among other researchers, were awarded a FUCAP grant for their project Influence of the innate immune response on respiratory infections in receptors of hematopoietic steam cell transplantation. Moreover, Dr. Miquel Ferrer Monreal and researcher Laia Fernández Barat from IAMR were awarded, among other researchers, the LETI grant for their project Study of the Biofilm in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in a swine model.
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Wednesday, 03/24/2010
New data on prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Spain
Dr. Marc Miravitlles exposes the latest national epidemiologic results in a clinical session at the hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading, but under-recognised, cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. No other disease that is responsible for comparable burden worldwide is neglected by healthcare providers as much as COPD.
The available epidemiologic data in Spain has been recently reviewed elsewhere The Estudio epidemiológico de EPOC en España (IBERPOC) study. In his latest study Dr. Miravitlles compared participants from the IBERPOC study (n=4,030), conducted in 1997, with those of the EPI-SCAN study (n=3,802) conducted in 2007.
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Wednesday, 03/03/2010
Dr. Eva Polverino talks about HCAP patients and results of her latest study
She deems it difficult to agree on a worldwide definition of HCAP patients
Interviewed by Idibaps Respiratory Research, senior investigator of our group on Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases Dr. Eva Polverino talked about HCAP patients. She has conducted the study Nursing home acquired pneumonia: a 10 year single-centre experience, the results of which will be presented by next May at the Annual Congress of the American Thoracic Society that will be held in New Orleans. Polverino believes the study could eventually help modifying the treatment of HCAP patients.
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Thursday, 02/25/2010
Prof. Torres in an interview with Publicación Médica en Neumología on the microbial etiology of pneumonia in elderly patients
The results of this study can change the type of treatment being given at present and recommended by guidelines
To analyze pneumonia in elderly patients is one of the objectives of the study HCAP (Health Care Associated Pneumonia), developed by this research group, belonging to CIBERES, coordinated by Prof. Antoni Torres. "Specifically we studied patients at nursing homes or who have some characteristics named Health Care Associated Pneumonia. This specific group covers nursing home patients, residential, recently hospitalized patients with intravenous treatments at home, all with a community-acquired pneumonia and not hospital-acquired, "says Torres.
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Wednesday, 02/10/2010
Idibaps Respiratory Research will launch a Facebook funpage very shortly
It will help spread the scientific activity carried out by the group
Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases Group (IAMR) will shortly launch its new Facebook funpage. Contents regarding the daily activity of the group will be published there. On one hand, the aim is to spread the scientific activity carried out by this group among citizens. On the other hand, it will help Idibaps Respiratory Research Group contact other scientific groups which have already presence in Facebook and, eventually, share information with them.
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Saturday, 01/30/2010
Respiratory physiotherapist Dani Martí, awarded the best abstract presentation by Société de Kinésitherapie de Réanimation
He presented preliminary results about his latest work at the 23rd Société de Kinésitherapie de Réanimation Congress held in Paris in late January
Dani Martí, currently working as a research physiotherapist at the division of animal experimentation of critical care medicine in Idibaps Respiratory Research Group, has been the recipient of the award to the best abstract presentation in the 23rd Société de Kinésitherapie de Réanimation Congress that took place in Paris from 21st to 22nd of January.
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Friday, 01/22/2010
Idibaps Respiratory Research Group Impact Factor substantially increased during 2009
The number of articles published keeps growing and the impact factor has increased from 76.37 in 2008 to 212.64 in 2009
The Impact Factor of scientific articles published by members of Idibaps Respiratory Research Group keeps rising. Whereas by the end of 2008 figures showed an Impact Factor of 76.37, at the end of 2009 it has reached 212.64.
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Friday, 01/15/2010
Lina Saucedo: “Working in the research group has been a very fruitful experience”
Colombian Medical Resident of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care talks about her experience in Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases Research Group from IDIBAPS.
During her fellowship in the research group, which will end by next September, Lina Maria Saucedo Jaramillo, a current resident in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Sabana, Bogotà, has learned many aspects regarding all phases of the research process, and has also understood the importance of the rigour in biomedical research.