BIGG

Resultados: 4

Pneumonia in adults: diagnosis and management

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:...

Pneumonia in adults: diagnosis and management

This guideline provides recommendations for the management of suspected and confirmed community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults. However, it does not provide recommendations on areas of care where best practice is already established, such as diagnosis using chest X-ray. This guideline does no...

Guía de Práctica Clínica para la evaluación del riesgo y manejo inicial de la neumonía en niños y niñas menores de 5 años y bronquiolitis en niños y niñas menores de 2 años: para uso de profesionales de la salud

Se realizó el análisis de la priorización de la guía en conjunto con el MSPS. Para el análisis se aplicaron los instrumentos sugeridos por la Guía Metodológica. La priorización se basó en el peso de las diferentes situaciones en la morbimortalidad de los niños menores de 5 años (carga de enfer...

Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

Am. fam. physician; 83 (11), 2011
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...