Key Clinical Points Community-Acquired Pneumonia Community-acquired pneumonia
remains a leading cause of death in the United States and around the world. Although the …

BACKGROUND Since the 1998 European Respiratory Society (ERS) lower respiratory tract
infection (LRTI) guidelines 1 were published, the evidence on which they were based has …

Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Background. Existing severity assessment tools, such as the pneumonia severity index (PSI)
and CURB-65 (tool based on confusion, urea level, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and …

Introduction International guidelines recommend a severity-based approach to management
in community-acquired pneumonia. CURB65, CRB65 and the Pneumonia Severity Index …

This seminar reviews important features and management issues of community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) that are especially relevant to immunocompetent adults in light of new …

Rationale: Heterogeneity in the septic response has hindered efforts to understand
pathophysiology and develop targeted therapies. Source of infection, with different causative …

Rationale: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) accounts for a major proportion of
intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for respiratory failure and sepsis. Diagnostic uncertainty …

The CURB-65 score (Confusion, Urea> 7 mmol· L− 1, Respiratory rate≥ 30· min− 1, low
Blood pressure, and age≥ 65 yrs) has been proposed as a tool for augmenting clinical …

Introduction Severity assessment and site-of-care decisions for patients with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) are pivotal for patients' safety and adequate allocation of …