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Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) as a site-of-care tool. BUN, blood urea nitrogen; CHF, chronic heart failure;
Pneumonia Severity ... blood pressure #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... PneumoniaSeverityIndex #Criteria
Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) as a site-of-care tool. BUN, blood urea nitrogen; CHF, chronic heart failure;
Pneumonia Severity ... blood pressure #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... PneumoniaSeverityIndex #Criteria
Serious Bacterial Illness (SBI):
1) UTI and pyelonephritis
Most common cause of SBI
Accounts for 3-8% of uncharacterized fevers
Female
pyelonephritis Most common cause ... specificity 2) Pneumonia ... CXR, obtain if findings ... Diagnosis #Peds #EM ... SeriousBacterialIllness #Ddxof
Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI)  - The PSI was developed from an administrative data set of
Pneumonia Severity ... of populations #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... PneumoniaSeverityIndex #Criteria