This guideline was developed before the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers diagnosing and managing pneumonia in adults who do not have COVID-19. It aims to improve accurate assessment and diagnosis of pneumonia to help guide antibiotic prescribing and ensure that people receive the right treatment.
July 2022:...
A clinical summary of this KDP was published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic .
Nosocomial pneumonia (HAP - Hospital Acquired Pneumonia and VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia) is the second most common nosocomial infection, and even the most common in patients in intens...
A potentially severe acute respiratory infection caused by the novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).[1] The clinical presentation is generally that of a respiratory infection
with a symptom severity ranging from a mild common cold-like illness, to a severe viral ...
Betacoronavirus/patogenicidad,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico por imagen,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/complicaciones,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/tratamiento farmacológico,
Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico por imagen,
Neumonía Viral/tratamiento farmacológico,
Neumonía Viral/complicaciones,
Pandemias/estadística & datos numéricos,
Brote de los Síntomas,
Grupos de Riesgo,
China/epidemiología,
Neumonía Asociada a la Atención Médica/diagnóstico,
Personal de Salud/organización & administración,
Portador Sano/transmisión,
Transmisión Vertical de Enfermedad Infecciosa/prevención & control
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are intended to support clinical decisions and should be based on high-quality evidence. Theobjective of the study was to evaluate the quality of evidence supporting the recommendations issued in CPGs for therapy,diagnosis, and prevention of hospital-acquired and venti...
Generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca de la Neumonía Adquirida en la Comunidad en Adultos de 65 años y más....
The microbial causes of pneumonia vary according to its origin and the immune constitution of the patient. Pneumonia is classified into community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and pneumonia in the immunocompromised. The guideline development process is guided by its scope - ...
Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung
imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...
Neumonía/diagnóstico por imagen,
Neumonía/terapia,
Enfermedades Respiratorias/diagnóstico,
Atención Ambulatoria/organización & administración,
Cultivo de Sangre/instrumentación,
Macrólidos/uso terapéutico,
Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico,
Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico,
Fluoroquinolonas/uso terapéutico,
Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos,
Neumonía Asociada a la Atención Médica/prevención & control
Torres, Antoni;
Niederman, Michael S;
Chastre, Jean;
Ewig, Santiago;
Fernandez-Vandellos, Patricia;
Hanberger, Hakan;
Kollef, Marin;
Bassi, Gianluigi Li;
Luna, Carlos M;
Martin-Loeches, Ignacio;
Paiva, J. Artur;
Read, Robert C;
Rigau, David;
Timsit, Jean François;
Welte, Tobias;
Wunderink, Richard.
Nosocomial pneumonia is a frequent infection that is classified into two groups [1]: HAP, which develops
in hospitalised patients after 48 h of admission, and does not require (but may include) artificial
ventilation at the time of diagnosis [2, 3]; and VAP, which occurs in intensive care unit (ICU) pati...
