Simulator training for recognition of murmurs: give a kid a hammer?

www.chestpubs.org pathogen and 332 patients with no identifi ed pathogen ( Table 1 ) and found no association. Bacterial documentation of our population was representative of pathogens isolated in patients with severe CAP. A part of unidentifi ed pathogens might have been viral pneumonia, which is not usually searched in clinical practice. 4 These results showing thrombocytopenia for a high percentage of common bacterial pathogens suggest that thrombocytopenia in critically ill patients with CAP is a severity criteria and not a diagnostic tool.