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Following are important land mark events that shows how aspiration pneumonia became an important entity of critical care: | Following are important land mark events that shows how aspiration pneumonia became an important entity of critical care:<ref name="pmid19857224">{{cite journal| author=Japanese Respiratory Society| title=Aspiration pneumonia. | journal=Respirology | year= 2009 | volume= 14 Suppl 2 | issue= | pages= S59-64 | pmid=19857224 | doi=10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01578.x | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19857224 }}</ref> | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Literature on aspiration pneumonia came in to knowledge of medical society along with discovery of pneumonia. Major break through came when x-ray was invented by Roentgen in 1896 .
Historical Perspective
Following are important land mark events that shows how aspiration pneumonia became an important entity of critical care:[1]
| Year | Events |
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| 460 BC–380 BC | Hippocrates described pnumonia |
| 1138–1204 AD | Maimonides wrote about pneumonia as "The basic symptoms which occur in pneumonia and which are never lacking are as follows: acute fever, sticking pleuritic pain in the side, short rapid breaths, serrated pulse and cough." |
| 1875 | Bacteria was first seen in the airways of individuals who died from pneumonia by Edwin Klebs |
| 1848 | worked on identifying the two common bacterial causes Streptococcus pneumoniae and Klebsiella pneumoniae was performed by Carl Friedländer |
| 1893 | Veillon was first to write about role of anaerobic bacteria in aspiration pneumonia |
| 1896 | Roentgen describes X-rays. |
| 1918 | Sir William Osler, known as "the father of modern medicine," appreciated the morbidity and mortality of pneumonia, describing it as the "captain of the men of death" |
| 1927 | Smith was first to clearly show anaerobic bacterial growth in animal models suffered aspiration pneumonia |
| 1929 | Drinker and Shaw announce the invention of the iron lung during the polio epidemic |
| 1946 | Fenn and coworkers publish work on pulmonary gas exchange |
| 1950 | Steroid used for asthma |
| 1970's | Plethora was discovered with introduction of using clindamycin in it's treatment |
| 1985 | Specimen collected from patients of aspiration pneumonia were vastly cultured and it was called anaerobic bandwagon |
References
- ↑ Japanese Respiratory Society (2009). "Aspiration pneumonia". Respirology. 14 Suppl 2: S59–64. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01578.x. PMID 19857224.