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Pneumonia in Critical Care: Part 2

Diagnosis

The lecture duration is 14min.

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Andrew Conway Morris

Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK

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Lecture Summary

This lecture forms the second of a three-part series on pneumonia in ICU. It describes the diagnostic approach to suspected pneumonia in patients in the intensive care unit. It will discuss the importance of history in predicting likely causative organisms, important for guiding empiric therapy. It describes the clinical, radiological, laboratory and microbiological features which are required to make a confirmed diagnosis of pneumonia, and the pitfalls of each of these modalities on their own. It introduces the concept of molecular microbiology and how this may change practice in the near future.

Target Audience

Critical Care Doctors and Nurses
Emergency Medicine Doctors and Nurses
Rural GP's

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

List the important features of history taking in suspected pneumonia
Understand the methods used to diagnose pneumonia, including the problems with clinical, radiological and host inflammation assessment by laboratory tests when used without microbiological confirmation
Describe the issues with microbiological testing, including the delays and insensitivity of culture-based methods and be aware of the novel molecular techniques which are increasingly available

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Definitions, epidemiology and microbiology

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