2025 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Adult Online-4: Community Acquired Pneumonia

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Dr. Robert Balk, a professor of medicine, provides a comprehensive review of severe pneumonia in ICU settings, including community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). He discusses risk factors such as alcoholism, asthma, and immunosuppression, the common pathogens like Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the importance of rapid diagnosis and treatment. Emphasizing the significant mortality associated with pneumonia, he underscores the importance of following guideline-directed therapies, including the use of multiple antibiotics and macrolides for severe cases, and the potential benefit of steroids. He highlights the need for unit-specific antibiograms and rapid empirical treatment to improve outcomes. Finally, he emphasizes prevention strategies like vaccinations and smoking cessation for SCAP, and stresses that while total prevention of HAP and VAP is unlikely, strategic prevention can reduce incidence and improve patient outcomes.

Keywords

severe pneumonia

ICU settings

risk factors

rapid diagnosis

antibiograms

prevention strategies

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