Community Acquired Pneumonia – Diagnosis and Management

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Overview

This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and includes the following elements. 

  • Background
    • Causative pathogens, prevalence of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), complications, and prognosis.
  • Diagnosis
    •   How to diagnose a patient with CAP, investigations to carry out, differential diagnoses.
  • Management
    • When to admit or refer a patient with CAP, how to manage a patient at home and which antibiotics to prescribe.
  • Optional quiz to assess your learning from the course
  • An audit suggestion
  • A list of useful links and resources for further reading

Goals

During this course you will learn to:

  • Outline the management of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) and describe which antibiotics should be prescribed.
  • Describe when people with CAP should be admitted or referred for specialist investigation.

Topics covered

Respiratory

Date created

01/09/2018

Last revision

10/05/2023

Next revision

01/09/2023

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