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Parental smoking, asthma, respiratory tract infections in childhood linked to adult OSA
19 Jan 2024
byStephen Padilla
Parental smoking, maternal asthma, and frequent lower respiratory tract infections before the age of 7 years are predictive of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) development during adulthood, suggests a study.
Parental smoking, asthma, respiratory tract infections in childhood linked to adult OSA
19 Jan 2024Inhaled amikacin cuts VAP burden in mechanically ventilated patients
16 Jan 2024
byAudrey Abella
In critically ill patients who have been on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) for at least 3 days, a subsequent 3-day course of preventive inhaled amikacin reduced the burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) during 28 days of follow-up, findings from the AMIKINHAL trial have shown.