Pneumonia as an impediment to treat patients in the early period after stroke
Creators: name: Małodobry, Katarzyna
name: Małgorzata Juda
name: Ozga, Dorota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine

description: <b>Małodobry Katarzyna, Juda Małgorzata, Ozga Dorota. </b><b>Pneumonia as an impediment to treat patients in the early period after stroke</b><b>. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(8):7</b><b>2</b><b>3-7</b><b>34</b><b>. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI </b><b>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6983207</b> <b>http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/58</b><b>34</b> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017).</b> <b>1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7</b> <br> <b>© The Authors 2018;</b> <b>This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland</b> <b>Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike.</b> <b>(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.</b> <br> <b>The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.</b> <br> <b>Received: </b><b>01</b><b>.08.2018. Revised: 15.08.2018. Accepted: 16.08.2018.</b> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Pneumonia as an impediment to treat patients in the early period after stroke</b> <b>Katarzyna Małodobry, Małgorzata Juda, Dorota Ozga</b> <b>Department of Didactics in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rzeszow</b> <b>Summary</b> Introduction: Infections are a common complication in the treatment of acute stroke. Among them, most often pneumonia, which contributes to increased mortality from stroke, prolong hospitalization, difficulties in care, reduce functional performance improvement and increased cost of treatment. The aim of the work is less analysis of the causes and consequences of the development of pneumonia in the early period after stroke and identify predictors of pneumonia and the need to take preventive measures to prevent the development of disease. Summary: Pneumonia developing in the early period after stroke affects the final outcome and contributes to longer hospitalization, deterioration of clinical status of patients and the results of functional improvement. Current methods to prevent the development of lung zaplenia require the involvement of the entire therapeutic team, which involves a large investment of time and cost of therapy. Therefore, constantly sought are more effective methods of prevention and treatment of pneumonia among stroke patients. Keywords: stroke, infections, pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia