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| Clinical characteristics of aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients with nasogastric feeding |
| ZHENG Qingxiu1,2, HUANG Xiaoying1, XU Xiaoxiao2 |
1.The First Clinical Medical College, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325035; 2.Department of Respiratory, Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wenzhou, 325000
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ZHENG Qingxiu,HUANG Xiaoying,XU Xiaoxiao. Clinical characteristics of aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients with nasogastric feeding[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2016, 46(9): 691-693.
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Abstract Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics, pathogenic bacterial characteristics, predisposing factors of elderly patients with nasogastric feeding and to explore the prevention and therapeutic strategies. Methods: Retrospective analysis on clinical characteristics, and the bacterium of cause of disease of sputum culture structure of 60 cases of aspiration pneumonia in patients with nasogastric feeding from Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine between January 2014 to January 2015. The age, basic diseases, etiology characteristic, symptoms and signs in aspiration pneumonia in elderly patients with nasal feeding were investisated. Results: Aspiration pneumonia in patients with nasogastric feeding often merged a variety of basic diseases, age, difficulty swallowing, disturbance of consciousness obviously increased the proportion. Gram-negative bacteria was the main pathogen bacteria in this patients. Conclusion: aspiration pneumonia in patients with nasogastric feeding causes more susceptible factors. However, because of complicated history and untypical symptoms that treatment should be depend on the characteristics of etiology and high effective antibiotics.
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Received: 17 February 2016
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