Reduction of post-bronchoscopy pneumonia by working channel irrigation with sterile saline before diagnostic procedures
While the irrigation by suctioning 100 mL of sterile saline was effective in reducing the bacterial load within the channel, the reduction in pneumonia incidence did not reach statistical significance, indicating the need for further accumulation of cases.
Authors
- Shunji Takakura
- Satoshi Nagaoka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9786-8668)
- Shuhei Teranishi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2365-144X)
- Masaki Yamamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7056-4192)
- Tatsuya Muraoka
- Kenichi Seki
- Takeshi Kaneko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9292-307X)
- Chihiro Maeda
- Ken Tashiro
- Ryo Nakadegawa
- Shinya Matsushita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8066-5270)
- Shunsuke Okazaki
- Anna Tanaka
- Makoto Kudo
- Tomofumi Hirose
- Yuichiro Suzukawa
Institutions
- Yokohama City University Medical Center (JP)
- Yokohama City University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Pulmonary Medicine
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-025-03726-6
- Primary Topic
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00