ArticlePaediatrics & child health
Uncomplicated pneumonia in healthy Canadian children and youth: Practice points for management.
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- Short-Course vs Long-Course Antibiotic Therapy for Children With Nonsevere Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Antibiotic use for community-acquired pneumonia in neonates and children: WHO evidence review.Paediatrics and international child health · 2018Pooled it
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- Quality of antibiotic prescribing for pediatric community-acquired Pneumonia in outpatient care.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Antibiotic Use for Common Infections in Pediatric Emergency Departments: A Narrative Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Antibiotic treatment duration for community-acquired pneumonia in children.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2023Article
- Research priorities for children with neurological impairment and medical complexity in high-income countries.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2022Article
- Popularization of "10".Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2021Article
- Macrolides (alone or in combination) should be used as first-line empirical therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in children: myth or maxim?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2021Article
- Combined influence of practice guidelines and prospective audit and feedback stewardship on antimicrobial treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and empyema in children: 2012 to 2016.Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- Assessment of nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization does not permit discrimination between Canadian children with viral and bacterial respiratory infection: a matched-cohort cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Insufficient Stability of Clavulanic Acid in Widely Used Child-Appropriate Formulations.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Predictors of Treatment Outcomes among Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Advances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences · 2021Article
- Drug use evaluation (DUE) of ceftriaxone: A quality metric in a pediatric hospital.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2020Article
- Paediatric critical illness associated with respiratory infection: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2020Article
- Management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children: Clinical practice guidelines endorsed by the Saudi Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2017Article
- Zinc supplementation for pediatric pneumonia.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2017Article
- Short-course versus long-course oral antibiotic treatment for infections treated in outpatient settings: a review of systematic reviews.Family practice · 2017Review
- Time to reconsider routine high-dose amoxicillin for community-acquired pneumonia in all Canadian children.Paediatrics & child health · 2016Article
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Abstract
Although immunization has decreased the incidence of bacterial pneumonia in vaccinated children, pneumonia remains common in healthy children. Symptoms of bacterial pneumonia frequently overlap those present with viral infections or reactive airway disease. Optimally, the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia should be supported by a chest radiograph before starting antimicrobials. Factors such as age, vital signs and other measures of illness severity are critical when deciding whether to admit a patient to hospital. Because Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to be the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia in children, prescribing amoxicillin or ampicillin for seven to 10 days remains the mainstay of empirical therapy for nonsevere pneumonia. If improvement does not occur, consideration should be given to searching for complications (empyema or lung abscess). Routine chest radiographs at the end of therapy are not recommended unless clinically indicated.
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