The alphabet soup of pneumonia: CAP, HAP, HCAP, NHAP, and VAP

N Anand, MH Kollef - Seminars in respiratory and critical care …, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
The classification of pneumonia is increasingly complex as the patient population becomes
more diverse. More and more patients are identified with pneumonia attributed to multidrug …

BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009

WS Lim, SV Baudouin, RC George, AT Hill… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
SYNOPSIS OF RECOMMENDATIONS A summary of the initial management of patients
admitted to hospital with suspected community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is presented in …

Severe community-acquired pneumonia

MI Restrepo, A Anzueto - Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious
diseases in the United States. It accounts for 500,000 hospitalizations and 45,000 deaths …

Risk factors for complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema on presentation to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia

JD Chalmers, A Singanayagam, MP Murray, C Scally… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
Background: The aim of this study was to identify key factors on admission predicting the
development of complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema in patients admitted with …

Severe community-acquired pneumonia: validation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society guidelines to predict an intensive care …

A Liapikou, M Ferrer, E Polverino… - Clinical Infectious …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. The recent Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic
Society guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults …

PIRO score for community-acquired pneumonia: a new prediction rule for assessment of severity in intensive care unit patients with community-acquired pneumonia

J Rello, A Rodriguez, T Lisboa, M Gallego… - Critical care …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To develop a severity assessment tool to predict mortality in community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) patients in intensive care unit (ICU), comparing its performance with …

Validation and clinical implications of the IDSA/ATS minor criteria for severe community-acquired pneumonia

J Phua, KC See, YH Chan, LS Widjaja, NW Aung… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
Background: The 2007 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)/American Thoracic
Society (ATS) guidelines defined severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and …

Validation of the Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic Society 2007 guidelines for severe community-acquired pneumonia

SM Brown, BE Jones, AR Jephson… - Critical care …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Validate the Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic Society
2007 (IDSA/ATS 2007) criteria for predicting severe community-acquired pneumonia …

[HTML][HTML] Risk stratification of early admission to the intensive care unit of patients with no major criteria of severe community-acquired pneumonia: development of an …

B Renaud, J Labarère, E Coma, A Santin, J Hayon… - Critical care, 2009 - Springer
Introduction To identify risk factors for early (< three days) intensive care unit (ICU)
admission of patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and not …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiologie, Diagnostik, antimikrobielle Therapie und Management von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbenen unteren Atemwegsinfektionen …

G Höffken, J Lorenz, W Kern, T Welte, T Bauer… - …, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
Zusammenfassung Definition: Inhalt der Leitlinie sind Epidemiologie, Diagnostik, Therapie
und Management von akuten unteren Atemwegsinfektionen (akute Bronchitis, akute …