Chapter 68- Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

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IMPORTANT NOTE – PLEASE READ FIRST: This continuing education assessment requires that you first purchase the text book: Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice. Please go to our home page: http://www.rxugace.com/ and click on “Books” for more information Prior To Registering for this assessment.

Upon completion of the corresponding textbook chapter in Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice and this on-line assessment, the reader should be able to:

1. List the common pathogens that cause community-acquired pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia (early versus late onset), and health care–associated pneumonia.
2. Explain the host defenses that protect against infection.
3. Explain the pathophysiology of pneumonia.
4. Recognize the signs and symptoms associated with community-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
5. Identify patient and organism factors required to guide the selection of a specific antimicrobial regimen for an individual patient.
6. Design an appropriate empirical antimicrobial regimen based on patient-specific data for an individual with community-acquired pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia, and ventilator-associated pneumonia or health care–associated pneumonia (early versus late onset).
7. Design an appropriate antimicrobial regimen based on both patient- and organism-specific data.
8. Develop a monitoring plan based on patient-specific information for a patient with community-acquired pneumonia and health care– or ventilator-associated pneumonia.
9. Formulate appropriate educational information to be provided to a patient with pneumonia.

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