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Community-acquired pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia · ICD-10: J18.9
Symptoms
- • Cough, sometimes with mucus
- • Fever
- • Shaking chills
- • Shortness of breath
- • Sharp chest pain worse with breathing or coughing
- • Headache
- • Loss of appetite, low energy and fatigue
- • Confusion, especially in older people
Drugs and regimens
Azithromycin⚠ Unverified
Community-acquired pneumonia — 5-day
Azithromycin⚠ Unverified
CAP — adult: 500 mg IV daily ≥2 days, then oral to 7–10 days
Cefepime⚠ Unverified
Moderate–severe pneumonia — adult 1–2 g every 8–12 h
Cefepime⚠ Unverified
Child 2 months–16 y (≤40 kg) — 50 mg/kg every 12 h (pneumonia, UTI, skin)
Cefpodoxime⚠ Unverified
CAP — ≥12 y: 200 mg every 12 h, 14 days
Clarithromycin⚠ Unverified
Community-acquired pneumonia
Levofloxacin⚠ Unverified
Community-acquired pneumonia: 500 mg daily 7–14 days (or 750 mg for 5 days)
Levofloxacin⚠ Unverified
Children
Moxifloxacin⚠ Unverified
CAP — 400 mg once daily, 7–14 days