Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia, severe community-acquired pneumonia and healthcare associated pneumonia

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: C. Luna (Buenos Aires, Argentina), R. Pela (Ascoli Piceno, Italy)

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Timing of previous hospitalizations impacts outcomes in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) L. Ruvolo, B. Cattaneo, V. Rossetti, F. Piffer, C. Carnevale, J. Guarize, K. Lyskanowska, S. Aliberti, P. Tarsia (Milan, Italy)
Mannose binding lectin (mbl) defiency in severe community aquired pneumonia (CAP)-a predisposing factor & predictor of severity? J. Evans, Y. E. Ong, V. Varney (Surrey, London, United Kingdom)
A delay in reaching time to clinical stability (tcs) for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with failure within 30 days after hospital discharge S. Aliberti, F. Piffer, V. Betti, P. Peyrani, B. Cattaneo, M. Zanardelli, G. Salomoni, F. Blasi, J. A. Ramirez (Milan, Italy; Louisville, United States Of America)
Absence of leukocytosis in bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia G. Izbicki, V. Furer, D. Raveh, S. Goldberg, P. Elie (Jerusalem, Israel)
Hospital-acquired pneumonia developed in non-intensive care units E. Cakir Edis, O. N. Hatipoglu, I. Yilmam, A. Eker, O. Tansel, N. Sut (Edirne, Turkey)
Clostridium difficile infection during hospitalisation for community acquired pneumonia – 10 year survey in the east of Scotland J. D. Chalmers, M. Al-Khairalla, T. C. Fardon, A. T. Hill (Edinburgh, Dundee, United Kingdom)
Complicated pneumococcal pneumonia in adults E. Polverino, C. Cilloniz, C. Esquinas, J. A. Riesco, J. Mensa, M. A. Marcos, E. Bragulat, R. Menendez, A. Torres (Barcelona, Valencia, Spain)
Severe community-acquired pneumonia (S-CAP) in patients aged ≤65 years-old without comorbidities (NOCOM) I. Palma, M. Labato, M. Fernandez Acquier, M. Lucia, S. Acuña, P. Peyrani, J. Ramirez, C. Luna (Buenos Aires, Vicente Lopez, San Miguel, Argentina; Louisville, United States Of America)
MR-proANP and prognosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia R. Seligman, J. Papassotiriou, N. Morgenthaler, M. Meisner, P. Teixeira, B. Seligman, S. Kretzer, V. Martins, L. F. Lima, V. Oliveira, C. Sanvicente, E. Pacheco, J. Sartori, K. Dalla Rosa, L. Restelatto (Porto Alegre, Brazil; Berlin, Dresden, Germany)
Differential characteristics in elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who required admission to ICU P. Catalan Serra, E. Fernandez-Fabrellas, A. Cervera Juan, J. Blanquer Olivas, C. Senent Español, F. Sanz Herrero, E. Chiner Vives, M. C. Aguar Benito (Valencia, Spain)
Immediate versus delayed admission to the intensive care unit for severe community-acquired pneumonia J. Phua, W. J. Ngerng, T. K. Lim (Singapore, Singapore)
Impact of a intensive care unit (ICU) programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene in ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) incidence B. V. Pinheiro, E. V. Carvalho, M. Pinto, F. Reis, F. Silva, A. P. Paiva, A. C. Meneghini, A. M. Soares, J. A. Oliveira (Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Type of acute respiratory failure and development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) P. Cabral, M. Gnoni, T. Wiemken, R. Karanjeet, L. Goss, P. Nolting, S. Marnini, P. Peyrani, J. Ramirez (Louisville, United States Of America)
Incidence and etiology of early (E) and late (L) onset ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in a university hospital M. Gnoni, P. Cabral, T. Wiemken, M. Luz Paz, M. Del Carmen Venero, P. Peyrani, J. Ramirez (Louisville, United States Of America)
Mortality in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and severe sepsis is determined by the number of organ failures M. Gnoni, T. Wiemken, P. Peyrani, P. Cabral, J. Ramirez (Louisville, United States Of America)
Ventilator associated pneumonia: the role of bronchoscopy to investigate and to diagnose lung infection B. Del Prato, D. Aronne, L. B. Montella, R. Giacobbe, P. Martucci, M. R. Natale, M. Boselli, M. Piccirillo, D. Amato (Naples, Italy)
Procalcitonin and pneumonia severity scores fail to predict death in nursing home acquired pneumonia (NHAP) V. B. Morris, M. Gleeson, N. G. McElvaney, S. J. O‘Neill (Dublin, Ireland)
Identifying risk factors in health care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) patients: nursing home (NH) residency vs. other risk factors V. Giunta, V. Rossetti, S. Aliberti, A. M. Zanaboni, S. Della Patrona, P. Peyrani, M. Di Pasquale, L. Morlacchi, J. A. Ramirez, F. Blasi (Milan, Italy; Louisville, United States Of America)
Epidemiology and outcomes in hospitalized patients with health-care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) and community-acquired pneummonia (CAP)~ A prospective observational cohort analysis H. Fukuyama, H. Tachibana, T. Ishida, M. Yamamoto, S. Ubukata (Kurashiki-city, Japan)
HCAP (health-care associated pneumonia) in Japanese city hospital M. Kato, Y. Hamamoto, T. Kobayashi, U. Sota, C. Yonemoto, Y. Koshimo, K. Miura, S. Goto, M. Kawashima (Kishiwada, Japan)