Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

• Age > 3 months

• Suspected CAP

• Cystic Fibrosis

• Immunodeficiency/Immunosuppression

• Tracheostomy

• At risk for aspiration pneumonia

• Hospital or institutional-acquired pneumonia

• Other chronic lung disease (except asthma)

• The management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: IDSA guidelines. August 30, 2011

• Williams DJ, Hall M, Shah SS et al. Narrow vs. broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy for children hospitalized with pneumonia . Pediatrics
  2013; e1141-8.

Revision date: November 2017
Approval date: November 2017
Next revision date: October 2019