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S1 Ep11: Community Acquired Pneumonia: The Alveoli Strike Back

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How to Admit a Child With Bacterial Pneumonia to the Hospital

A lot of this just depends on the way the child looks. I think that young infants with true low bar bacterial pneumonia that is likely pneumococcal are probably not going to look well enough to go home. In an outpatient setting and let's say someone presents with focal findings but is well appearing we'd send them home. When would you consider outpatient anti bacterial treatment for community acquired pneumonia. Do you want to learn more about pediatric asthma? Join me for the cryptsiders episode on pediatric asthma.

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