Hey what's up guys and welcome to episode 41 of the Physician

assistant boards.com podcast today's topic is going to be community acquired

pneumonia and we're going to be talking about the definition, the signs and symptoms for patients,

any type of diagnostic testing, and the treatment plan that we're going to formulate for these patients.

Before we get started, I just want to give a quick thank you to everybody that's wished me a happy birthday.

Had a birthday yesterday, turned 27 years old, which makes me feel incredibly old,

but I'm sure there are some of you out there that are a little bit

older than I am but either way it's just it's crazy to think I'm you know gonna be

hitting my 30s pretty soon but anyway that's a whole another topic for a whole

another day what I want to say is just thank you thank you But anyway, that's a whole another topic for a whole other day.

What I want to say is just thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the birthday

wishes that I received yesterday, so thank you so much.

So let's just dive right in to the topic of community acquired pneumonia.

Now the definition for this, this is going to be an acute infection of the lung parakema.

Now in order to classify this as community acquired, then you have to have had this infection in the community, right?

Which means that you cannot have acquired this infection in the hospital.

It cannot be nosocomial, which means that if you're

hospitalized, this infection has to start within the first 48 hours of hospitalization.

Or you get the infection when you're not in the hospital.

Now if you're in the hospital, if you're admitted for whatever reason and the

infection starts after 48 hours this is no longer considered community acquired

a pneumonia. So that's the distinction there. That 48 hour mark from

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