2012Clinical MedicineOpen access

Community acquired pneumonia: assessment and treatment

Caroline Patterson, Michael R. Loebinger

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#### Key points Pneumonia is an acute illness characterised by symptoms and signs of lower respiratory tract infection, with new radiographic shadowing for which there is no alternative explanation. Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is pneumonia acquired outside a hospital or long-term care

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#### Key points Pneumonia is an acute illness characterised by symptoms and signs of lower respiratory tract infection, with new radiographic shadowing for which there is no alternative explanation. Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is pneumonia acquired outside a hospital or long-term care

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#### Key points Pneumonia is an acute illness characterised by symptoms and signs of lower respiratory tract infection, with new radiographic shadowing for which there is no alternative explanation. Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is pneumonia acquired outside a hospital or long-term care

Key concepts: Medicine, Pneumonia, Community-acquired pneumonia, Intensive care medicine, Internal medicine

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