Erschienen in:
01.12.2007 | Editorial
Severity of illness assessment for managing community-acquired pneumonia
verfasst von:
Jordi Rello, Alejandro Rodriguez
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2007
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Excerpt
Mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is below 1% in outpatients, around 5% in inpatients, and up to 25% in intubated patients [
1‐
3]. A recent study [
4] estimated mortality near 50% in ICU patients requiring inotropes. A key issue is assessment of severity of illness in the emergency department (ED) to take a decision regarding site of care and because diagnostic workup and empirical choice of antibiotics should be different. …