Rapid Breathing Community Acquired Pneumonia Treatment Failure Model

Evaluation

Are you evaluating a small child with community-acquired pneumonia?

Yes

Age of the patient

months

Respiratory rate

breaths per minute

Does the child show hypoxemia?

Yes

Temperature

Is the child moderately malnourished?

Yes

Number of doses of pentavalent vaccine received

Number of doseas of 13 valent pneumococcal vaccine received

Does the child have concurrent malaria?

Yes

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate ?

Value of X

Probability of treatment failure with oral antibiotics

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

Monitoring

Response To Therapy
- Criteria for Patient with COPD Exacerbation Who Does Not Require Antibiotic Therapy
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia - Clinical Follow-up for Expected Response to Antibiotic Therapy for Child

Specialty

Infectious Diseases
Pharmacology, clinical
Pulmonology

Objective

options
selection
failure handling and therapy escalation
response to therapy

ICD-10

J13 - Pneumonia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae
J14 - Pneumonia due to Haemophilus influenzae
J15 - Bacterial pneumonia, not elsewhere classified
J18 - Pneumonia, organism unspecified

Model for Predicting Oral Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Child with Rapid Breathing Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Purpose: To identify a small child with fast breathing community-acquired pneumonia who may fail oral antibiotic therapy based on the model of King et al.