UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Infectious Disease

Title: CAP 2007

Keywords: community acquired pneumonia, CURB-65, empiric antibiotics (PubMed Search)

Posted: 9/18/2007 by Mike Winters, MD (Updated: 3/29/2024)
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Important EM pearls from the recent 2007 IDSA/ATS guidelines for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) Patients should be treated for a minimum of 5 days CURB-65 a new pneumonic; any patient with ? 2 warrants admission Confusion Uremia elevated Respiratory rate low Blood pressure age > 65 Outpatient CAP treatment Healthy + no abx in past 3 months ? macrolide Comorbidities OR use of abx within last 3 months ? a respiratory fluoroquinolone OR ?-lactam + macrolide Inpatient CAP treatment ICU patients ? ?-lactam + either azithromycin or a respiratory fluoroquinolone Non-ICU patients ? respiratory fluoroquinolone OR ?-lactam + macrolide Mandell LA, et al. Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;44:S27-S72