Investigations for pneumonia.

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Prasanna Kumar Thomas

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P and pleuritic affections, are to be thus observed: If the fever be acute, and if there be pains on either side, or in both, and if expiration be if cough be present, and the sputa expectorated be of a blond or livid color, or likewise thin, frothy, and florid, or having any other character different from the common... When pneumonia is at its height, the case is beyond remedy if he is not purged, and it is bad if he has dyspnoea, and urine that is thin and acrid, and if sweats come out about the neck and head, for such sweats are bad, as proceeding from the suffocation, rales, and the violence of the disease which is obtaining the upper hand. – Hippocrates [460 BC – 370 BC] (Fig. 1). The above description of pneumonia by Hippocrates [460 BC – 370 BC] is a very clear and crisp account of the evolution of pneumonias. One also needs to understand that the above statement was made in the pre-antibiotic era – today’s scenario being completely different where both the clinical and radiological presentation and the subsequent relevant investigations become vital to the proper diagnoses and therapy of pneumonias. One also needs to take into account the looming giant of drug resistant bacteria. The decision making process in a pneumonia needs to answer Investigations for Pneumonia

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