![]() It was time to update the guideline so that clinicians could be certain they were still practicing evidence-based care.” “Not only has there been new data in the past decade, but there is now a strong national and international focus on antibiotic stewardship. “CAP remains one of the leading causes of deaths in the world,” said Grant Waterer, MBBS, PhD, co-chair of the guideline committee and a professor of medicine at the University of Western Australia. One important difference between the latest guideline and the 2007 guideline is that it recommends more microscopic studies of respiratory tract samples in some subgroups of patients to avoid unnecessarily prescribing therapies for drug-resistant bacteria. Although some of the recommendations made in the earlier guideline remain unchanged, the 2019 version revises recommendations for empiric treatment strategies and makes additional recommendations for disease management. ![]() The latest guideline replaces one from 2007, which was produced by the two societies. The guideline focuses on adults who are not immunocompromised. The guideline makes recommendations in response to key decisions facing clinicians caring for patients with CAP, including diagnostic testing, site of care, selection of initial empiric antibiotic therapy and subsequent disease management. Many things can cause pneumonia, which causes the air sacs in the lung to become inflamed, though most often bacteria or viruses are to blame. 1 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.īy definition, CAP is pneumonia acquired outside a hospital setting. 1, 2019─ The American Thoracic Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have published an official clinical guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the ATS’s Oct. ATS/IDSA Publishes Clinical Guideline on Community Acquired Pneumonia
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