Community Acquired Pneumonia Antibiotic Criteria for Failure in Child

Are you evaluating a small child who has been treated for fast-breathing community-acquired pneumonia?

Yes

Are you evaluating the child on the day after oral antibiotics have been stopped?

Yes

Age of the patient

months

Respiratory rate

breaths per minute

Axillary temperature

Oxygen saturation (enter from 0 to 100)

percent

Is there indrawing of the lower chest?

Yes

Is the child vomiting everything?

Yes

Is the child unable to feed?

Yes

Has the child had convulsions in the past 24 hours?

Yes

Is the child sleepy or unconscious?

Yes

Is the child grunting?

Yes

Does the child show nasal flaring?

Yes

Is the child showing head nodding?

Yes

Did the antibiotics need to be changed?

Yes

Has the child been hospitalized?

Yes

Has the child died?

Yes

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate ?

Number of findings indicating treatment failure

Has the child failed oral antibiotic therapy?

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Therapy

Options
Selection
Drug Interactions
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia - Factors Influencing Choice of Antibacterial Therapy in Child
Dosage Calculations
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Parapneumonic Effusion - Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Child
Dosage Adjustments
- Criteria for Patient with COPD Exacerbation Who Does Not Require Antibiotic Therapy
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Parapneumonic Effusion - Duration of Antibiotic Therapy for Child
Failure Handling And Therapy Escalation
- Model for Predicting Oral Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Child with Rapid Breathing Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Prevention
- Recommendations for Prevention of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Infants

Monitoring

Response To Therapy

Evaluation

Results

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Therapy

Monitoring

Specialty

Objective

ICD-10

Criteria for Failure of Oral Antibiotic Therapy in Child with Rapid Breathing Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Purpose: To identify a small child with fast breathing community-acquired pneumonia who has failed oral antibiotic therapy.

Evaluation

Results

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Therapy

Monitoring

Specialty

Objective

ICD-10