Bin Cao

TL;DR: Widespread implementation of procalcitonin protocols in patients with acute respiratory infections has the potential to improve antibiotic management with positive effects on clinical outcomes and on the current threat of increasing antibiotic multiresistance.

TL;DR: The national prevalence of asthma in a representative sample of the Chinese population was 4·2% (95% CI 3·1-5·6), representing 45·7 million Chinese adults, and smoking, childhood pneumonia or bronchitis, parental history of respiratory disease, and low education attainment were associated with prevalent asthma.

TL;DR: In this paper, a task force from the European Respiratory Society and endorsed by the Chinese Thoracic Society identified priority interventions for the initial version of this "living guideline" using PICO (population, intervention, comparator, outcome) format.

TL;DR: This consensus document was created by a multidisciplinary panel of 45 physicians with experience in the management of CAP in immunocompromised patients and achieved consensus in defining the population, site of care, likely pathogens, microbiological work-up and general principles of empiric therapy.

TL;DR: The findings do not support use of inhaled amikacin adjunctive to standard-of-care intravenous therapy in mechanically ventilated patients with Gram-negative pneumonia.