Abstract

TIRADO BIENTZ, Jorge Imaé; CIGALES REYES, María Julia  and  MOREJON GARCIA, Moisés. Antibiotic treatment in community acquired pneumonia. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.2, pp. 202-211. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: the Community-Acquired Pneumonia is one of the most frequents infections in our environment, with high mortality in patient of the third age. Objective: to determine the effectiveness of the antibiotics treatments used in the patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Methods: Observational, retrospective and descriptive study was conducted in in 208 patients admitted at Internal Medicine service of Manuel Fajardo Hospital, during the first 3 trimesters of 2008. The variables studied were the parameters of CRB-65 score, the patients´s final evolution and the antimicrobial regimen used. Results: the 88% of patients were more than 65 years old. The global mortality was 39.44%, independently of the antimicrobial regimen used. The mortality in the III and IV groups of CRB-65 was 70.6%. Conclusions: the effectiveness of the three antimicrobial regimens was similar. The mortality was bigger in the patients of the groups III and IV of the CRB-65.

Keywords : community-acquired pneumonia; CRB-65 score.

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