Antibiotics in pediatric CAP vary Factors that contribute to antibiotic choice for CAP include patient age, previous antibiotic receipt, and private insurance. Antibiotic choice for community-acquired ...

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have released guidelines for managing community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a very serious diagnosis even though we have excellent antibiotics and consensus guidelines for their use. [1] But are the guidelines followed, and does ...

New York, NY – Nov. 11, 2025 – Pneumonia, a largely preventable disease, caused more than two million deaths in 2021, according to the Global Burden of Disease report. Evidence-based guidance on its ...

New research out of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., suggests hospitals treating children with community-acquired pneumonia are doing a better job of using antibiotics that are less commonly ...

Lung ultrasound is acceptable diagnostic alternative to chest radiography in medical centers with appropriate clinical expertise. HealthDay News — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the ...

Credit: Getty Images This review provides a concise overview of the evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment criteria for community-acquired pneumonia. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a ...

Adjunctive glucocorticoids may reduce mortality among patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in well-resourced settings. Whether these drugs are beneficial in low-resource settings ...

Co announces it's Factive tablets, is recommended, among other fluoroquinolones, for the treatment of patients with co-morbidities in the latest community-acquired pneumonia consensus guidelines from ...