Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to ...

Pneumonia Guideline. Of the 36 BTS recommendations that overlapped with NICE recommendations, no major differences were found in 31, including those covering key aspects of CAP management: timeliness ...

These guidelines suggest evaluation, therapy, and work-up of pneumonia patients based upon patient- specific risk factors, age and site of treatment. Pneumococcal species are the most common ...

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You may need treatment in a hospital ... muscles dysphagia (trouble swallowing from weakened throat muscles) aspiration pneumonia (a lung infection resulting from inhaling food or drink due ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

These include painful sores, infertility, or even a potentially deadly bloodstream infection (called candidemia). Yeast infections usually get worse until treatment begins. The symptoms depend on the ...

Pneumococcal disease (PD) includes both invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD), such as meningitis, bacteremia, bacteremic pneumonia and empyema, and non-invasive pneumococcal disease, such as community ...