Prone Position Ventilation for Community-acquired Pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia and acid-suppressive drugs: position statement.

Doxycycline for community-acquired pneumonia.

Sir—I read with interest the article by Johnson [1] suggesting a more prominent role for doxycycline in empiric therapy for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). A response by Lederman et al. [2] described an in vitro susceptibility survey that compared tetracycline with doxycy-cline against bacterial pathogens causing CAP. The survey emphasized the relative lack of susceptibility of Streptococcu...

Corticosteroids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

Antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.

Antibiotic guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) often recommend broad-spectrum agents for severe pneumonia. While these may be entirely appropriate in terms of their spectrum of activity and efficacy, there is a risk that such recommendations could result in over-prescribing of broad-spectrum agents with consequent 'collateral damage', meaning superinfection by resistant pathogens,...

Community-acquired pneumonia.

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in all age groups, especially the elderly, which is a patient population that continues to grow. Recently the spectrum and clinical picture of pneumonia has been changing as a reflection of this aging population; this requires a reassessment of and a new approach to the patient with pneumonia. Currently, pneumo...