Diagnosis and Management of Pneumonia in the Emergency Department

Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital admission decisions, infection control, quality...

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Autores principales: Moran, Gregory J., Talan, David A., Abrahamian, Fredrick M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18295683
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2007.10.003
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spelling pubmed-71350932020-04-08 Diagnosis and Management of Pneumonia in the Emergency Department Moran, Gregory J. Talan, David A. Abrahamian, Fredrick M. Infect Dis Clin North Am Article Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital admission decisions, infection control, quality measures for pneumonia care, and empiric antimicrobial therapy. Elsevier Inc. 2008-03 2008-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7135093/ /pubmed/18295683 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2007.10.003 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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