The phrase "avoid pneumonia" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing health precautions or recommendations to prevent pneumonia.
Example: "To maintain good health during the winter months, it is important to take steps to avoid pneumonia."
Alternatives: "prevent pneumonia" or "stay clear of pneumonia".
The only way to avoid pneumonia is to stay outdoors.
Select also said that a privately maintained database showed that it was better at weaning patients off ventilators and helping them avoid pneumonia than typical hospitals.
Despite decades of research establishing best practices for prevention of these infections, approximately one in 10 hospitals lack checklists to prevent bloodstream infections, and one in four lack checklists to help avoid pneumonia in ventilator patients.
You have to stretch and exercise patients' flaccid limbs daily to avoid contractures, give subcutaneous injections of blood thinners at least twice a day, turn patients in bed every few hours, bathe them and change their sheets without knocking out a tube or a line, brush their teeth twice a day to avoid pneumonia from bacterial buildup in their mouths.
RCTs used in that meta-analysis and published between 1980 and 2006 did not found any evidence about PPSV23 as protective vaccine to avoid pneumonia [ 40, 41, 53- 58].
UNICEF delivered flyers for families to learn how to handle safe water (4,500), how to prevent conjunctivitis (3,000) and skin diseases (4,300), the importance of food hygiene practices (4,100) as well as recommendations to avoid pneumonia (6,500) and acute diarrheic diseases (3,300).
Similarly, Namen and coworkers [ 10] found that a weaning protocol for head-injured patients should always include a neurological assessment using the GCS; a score greater than 8 on the GCS was most accurate in predicting successful extubation without need for reintubation, and avoiding pneumonia and tracheostomy.
Measures were taken to avoid aspiration pneumonia.
Normal swallowing is very important to avoid aspiration pneumonia.
The corresponding number needed to treat (NNT) to avoid one pneumonia event per year was 2395%5% confidence interval 18 to 37).
We specifically did not include in the sample those patients with a principal diagnosis of sepsis (038.xx) or respiratory failure (518.81 or 518.84) with a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia to avoid including cases where pneumonia could have been a complication of the hospitalization.
