{"id":2474,"date":"2009-07-28T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infhap\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:09:19","slug":"infhap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/infhap\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Hospital-Acquired (or Nosocomial) Pneumonia (HAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Acute nosocomial pneumonia is broadly defined as pneumonia characterized by a new and persistent infiltrate (radiographically present for greater than 48 hours) PLUS one of the following:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Positive pleural or blood culture for the same organism as that recovered in respiratory secretions<\/li>\n<li>Radiographic evidence of cavitation or necrosis<\/li>\n<li>Histopathologic evidence of pneumonia<\/li>\n<li>Two of the following:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Core temperature &gt; 38.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Blood leukocytes &gt; 10,000 cells\/mL<\/li>\n<li>Purulent tracheal secretions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kollef MH. What is ventilator-associated pneumonia and why is it important? Respir Care. 2005 Jun;50(6):714-21.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15913464\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>American Thoracic Society; Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005 Feb 15;171(4):388-416. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15699079\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Jul 31, 2009<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1430,1429,812,490,16,15,14,13,1428,1427,1344,985,1426,984],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-acquired","tag-adquirida","tag-clinica","tag-clinical","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-hap","tag-hospital","tag-infectious","tag-neumonia","tag-nosocomial","tag-pneumonia"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}