Sepsis & infection

European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)/European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)/ALAT guidelines for the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia

Intensive Care MedPublished Clinical practice guideline

An erratum to this article was published (Intensive Care Med, Aug 2023 ↗)

Methodological detailsGRADE, Evidence to Decision frameworks, systematic literature searches, meta-analyses, Eight clinical questions on severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) diagnosis and treatment, Panel of 18 European and four non-European experts plus two methodologists
  • GRADE
  • Evidence to Decision frameworks
  • Systematic literature searches
  • Meta-analyses
  • Eight clinical questions on sCAP diagnosis and treatment
  • Panel of 18 European and four non-European experts plus two methodologists

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Recommendations on diagnosis, antibiotics, organ support, biomarkers and co-adjuvant therapy, for or against specific treatment interventions

Original publication

ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia. Intensive Care Med. Published 4 April 2023. doi:10.1007/s00134-023-07033-8

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