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Welcome to episode seven of Helix Talk. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Patel.

And I'm Dr. Schumann.

And today we're talking about community-acquired pneumonia, specifically the 2007 guidelines

from the Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Theracic Society.

So I noticed that, yeah, Godwins published in 2007 may not necessarily

be as applicable today as they were then. Any thoughts for if they're going to be updated anytime soon?

So theoretically, they're supposed to be updated or due to be updated in the fall of 2015. But as we

know from many other guideline publishers, sometimes that can be pushed back

depending on kind of how much red tape is involved in new studies that come out

that need to be incorporated in the guidelines so first of all when the patient

presents a bit pneumonia how do we decide whether we need to treat the patient

as an outpatient or treat the patient as an inpatient. So what are the diagnostic measures?

I think there are a couple of them that can be used.

There's the curb 65 and then the pneumonia severity index.

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