Infectious Diseases Society of America and the British Thoracic Society have developed clinical practice guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of CAP in children [1,2]. The outpatient treatment of CAP in infants and children will be reviewed here. Neonatal
Practice Gaps. Management of pediatric community-acquired pneumonia should focus on judicious use of antimicrobial medications, bacterial diagnostics, and surgical drainage when complicated by large effusion and empyema. Treatment in adherence to national guidelines produces favorable outcomes.
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a lower respiratory tract infection occurring in a child who has not resided in a hospital or health care facility in the Use of the World Health Organization guidelines is associated with a sensitivity of about 70% to 74% and a specificity of 40% to 70% in correctly identifying
2 Mar 2017 In 2015, community acquired pneumonia (CAP) accounted for 15% of deaths in children under 5 years old globally and 922 000 deaths globally in healthy children outside the neonatal period and summarises recommendations from the British Thoracic Society guidelines for UK practice.2 Similar
1 Oct 2012 Community-acquired pneumonia is a potentially serious infection in children and often results in hospitalization. but several organizations have published treatment guidelines.7,25,26 Oral administration of antibiotics is preferred except when the patient cannot tolerate oral therapy or has severe CAP.26.
In the developing world, for pediatric patients with nonsevere pneumonia (as defined by WHO), a pulse oximetric SpO2 measurement of <90% at the initial visit has been documented to be predictive of failure of outpatient oral

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