医疗保健相关性肺炎

医疗保健相关性肺炎是新近提出的独立的肺炎类型,其不同于社区获得性肺炎、医院获得性肺炎和呼吸机相关性肺炎.医疗保健相关性肺炎患者来源于院外,某些病例特征在一定程度上与社区获得性肺炎存在交叉,但其临床表现、危险因素、病因学、预后及初始经验性抗生素治疗又与社区获得性肺炎有所差异,反而与医院获得性肺炎有诸多重叠.因此当务之急,医务工作者应全面且正确识别医疗保健相关性肺炎,这对我们指导治疗、改善预后意义极其重大.

Healthcare-associated pneumonia

Heahhcare-associated pneumonia is an independent category of pneumonia, which was introduced recently and is different from community-acquired pneumonia,hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia.Patients with heahhcare-associated pneumonia come from community,to a certain extent, characteristics of some cases cross with that of community-acquired pneumonia.But its clinical manifestation, risk factors, etiology, prognosis and initial empirical antibiotic therapy differ from community-acquired pneumonia.On the contrary, there is lots of overlapping with hospital-acquired pneumonia.Therefore,it is imperative for medical workers to recognize healthcare-associated pneumonia comprehensively and correctly, which plays an extremely significant role for us to guide treatment and improve prognosis.