Optimizing Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Department

Overview

Journal Emerg Med Clin North Am

Specialty Emergency Medicine

Date 2024 Apr 19

PMID 38641389

Authors

Katherine M Hunold

Elizabeth Rozycki

Nathan Brummel

Affiliations

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Abstract

Pneumonia is split into 3 diagnostic categories: community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), health care-associated pneumonia, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. This classification scheme is driven not only by the location of infection onset but also by the predominant associated causal microorganisms. Pneumonia is diagnosed in over 1.5 million US emergency department visits annually (1.2% of all visits), and most pneumonia diagnosed by emergency physicians is CAP.

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