Mortality indicators in community-acquired pneumonia requiring intensive care in Turkey

Mortality prediction in community-acquired pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation; values of pneumonia and intensive care unit severity scores.

Severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. Many different pneumonia scoring systems have been developed in order to assess the severity of pneumonia and to decide the ICU follow-up and treatment. But still debate is going on about their performances and also they have not been tested yet if they can predict ICU mortality in severe CA...

Scenario 2: community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization but not requiring admission to an intensive care unit.

The patient is a 65-year-old woman with community-acquired pneumonia of sufficient severity to require hospitalization. Factors important for consideration in clinical trials are illustrated.

Severe community-acquired pneumonia in the intensive care unit

Severe community-acquired pneumonia requiring intensive care: a study of 80 cases from Singapore.

INTRODUCTION Severe community-acquired pneumonia is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. This study looked at the clinical characteristics of these patients admitted to a Singaporean community hospital and the prognostic impact of age, bacteraemia and logistic organ dysfunction score (LODS) on intensive care unit mortality. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 80 severe community-...

Improvement in process of care and outcome in patients requiring intensive care unit admission for community acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND The present study was performed to assess the prognosis of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) after implementation of new processes of care. METHODS Two groups of patients with CAP were admitted to a 16-bed multidisciplinary ICU in an urban teaching hospital during two different periods: the years 1995-2000, corresponding to th...