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Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufciency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II): Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) 2017

Pastore, Stephen M; Annane, Djillali; Rochwerg, Bram.

Intensive care med; 29 (1), 2018

Tis part II of the guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufciency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients is related to acute illnesses that may be complicated by CIRCI. We followed strictly the same methodology as for part I (see Appendix 1 in Supplementary...

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Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

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...