A collaborative group led by Trinity researchers has published the first guidelines for treating patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP)—a high-mortality condition that describes people admitted to ICU.
European Respiratory Journal
Community-acquired pneumonia is a very common respiratory infectious disease but approximately 40% of patients will require hospitalization and 5% of those will be admitted to ICU, at which point they are clinically classified as having sCAP.
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