Aspiration pneumonia can sometimes lead to severe and potentially life-threatening complications if left untreated, including: If not treated aggressively and in a timely manner, complications of ...

Background Aspiration of oropharyngeal or gastric contents into the lower airways can cause a number of syndromes including chemical and bacterial pneumonia, although the pathophysiology of each ...

Surgical patients may still have leftovers in their system even after a standard fast, potentially increasing the chance of a ...

Pneumonia is an infectious lung disease. It can affect people of all age groups. Pneumonia in babies can be fatal. The disease attacks the respiratory system, mainly the lungs, thereby causing ...

As a result, aspiration is often overlooked and silent dysphagia may cause recurrent pneumonia. A 52-year-old man with known congenital cerebral palsy causing widespread spasticity problems, ...

11 Key factors in reducing the incidence of aspiration pneumonia and other negative health outcomes ... Noncompliance can lead to a cascade of negative health sequelae including malnutrition, ...

Figure 1 Chest radiography in an 85-year-old man with bilateral extensive aspiration pneumonia and glottic ... of chest radiograph in identifying acute pneumonia. Furthermore, patients with extensive ...

However, pneumonia is not contagious when it is caused by a foreign substance, like when food, drink, or saliva enters the lungs and causes inflammation. This is called aspiration pneumonia ...

There are concerns that local anaesthetic throat spray (TS) in combination with intravenous sedative and analgesic agents (ISAAs) can precipitate respiratory complications, specifically, aspiration ...

Correspondence to: Dr Rainer Dziewas Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 33, 48129 Münster, Germany; dziewasuni-muenster.de Background: Aspiration ...

The objective of this systematic review is to assess and summarise all the evidence on the cost related to OD and its complications (malnutrition, dehydration, aspiration pneumonia and death) in ...