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Guidelines
Respiratory Infections

Respiratory Infections

Community Acquired Pneumonia

Mild/Moderate

Non ICU

Severe

In Patient Severe/ICU

Hospital Acquired Pneumonia

Mild/Moderate

  • 48 hrs hospitalization

  • No risk factors for resistance

Severe
  • >48 hrs hospitalization: severe/ICU

OR

  • Isolation of resistant organisms

OR

  • Risk factors for resistance including:
    • Prior antibiotics ≤3 months
    • Structural lung disease
    • Immunosuppression

Aspiration Pneumonia

Aspiration Pneumonia

Normally occurs >48 hrs post aspiration event

Aspiration Pneumonitis

Acute lung injury caused by inhalation of sterile gastric contents