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Dr. Eva Polverino talks about HCAP patients and results of her latest study

2010-03-03 00:00:00

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.

Prof. Torres in an interview with Publicación Médica en Neumología on the microbial etiology of pneumonia in elderly patients

2010-02-25 00:00:00

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.

Idibaps Respiratory Research will launch a Facebook funpage very shortly

2010-02-10 00:00:00

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.

Respiratory physiotherapist Dani Martí, awarded the best abstract presentation by Société de Kinésitherapie de Réanimation

2010-01-30 00:00:00

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.

Idibaps Respiratory Research Group Impact Factor doubled during 2009

2010-01-22 00:00:00

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 150, almost twice as much as 2008’s.