RT Book, Section
A1 Fitzpatrick, Meghan E.
A1 Prendergast, Niall T.
A1 Rivera-Lebron, Belinda
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193146076
T1 Pneumonia
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193146076
RD 2024/04/23
AB Pneumonia  has  classically  been  considered  in  terms  of  the  infecting  organism  (Table  9–8)  (eFigures  9–7,  9–8,  9–9,  and  9–10).  This  approach  facilitates  discussion  of  characteristic  clinical  presentations  but  is  a  limited  guide  to  patient  management  since  specific  microbiologic  information  is  usually  not  available  at  initial  presentation.  Current  classification  schemes  emphasize  epidemiologic  factors  that  predict  etiology  and  guide  initial  therapy.  Pneumonia  may  be  classified  as  community-acquired  pneumonia  (CAP)  or  nosocomialpneumonia  and,  within  the  latter,  as  hospital-acquired  pneumonia  (HAP)  or  ventilator-associated  pneumonia  (VAP).  These  categories  are  based  on  differing  settings  and  infectious  agents  and  require  different  diagnostic  and  therapeutic  interventions.  Anaerobic  pneumonia  and  lung  abscess  can  occur  in  both  hospital  and  community  settings.