Management of severe community acquired pneumonia – ERS guidelines

There are no specific guidelines on severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), the most lethal form of CAP. These guidelines will be published next March in the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) and Intensive Care Medicine.

Educational aims

• To learn on the evidence recommendations of several important clinical aspects of severe community-acquired pneumonia.
• To learn how to manage severe CAP to improve outcomes of patients

Topics

• Use of rapid molecular platforms for microbial diagnosis
• Use of non-invasive mechanical ventilation
• Best antibiotic empirical treatment (including antivirals)
• Frequency and importance of MDR/XDR microorganisms in severe CAP
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Use of corticosteroids

Learning outcomes

To improve the knowledge of how to manage severe CAP based on the evidence with the final aim of improving the outcomes of these patients.

Format

This will be an interactive 1-hour webinar focused on discussing the different recommendations of the guidelines. Apart from the clinical case discussion, attendees can ask questions, which will be answered in the Q&A section of the webinar.

CME credit

An application for accreditation of this webinar has been made to the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP) for 1 CME credit per 1-hour attendance. If accredited, the CME credit will be granted upon attendance of at least 60 minutes during the live webinar only.

What is a webinar?

A webinar closely simulates a lecture-based teaching experience. The speaker can interact with the audience, just as in a classroom setting. During the webinar, you will be asked to share your opinion on issues related to the topic using interactive polls.

All participants will be able to hear the lecturer and see the slides throughout the presentation. As a participant you will be able to pose questions or discuss ideas with the other participants via the text chat facility and the speaker will respond to the questions via the microphone.

Login guidelines

More information will be communicated in due course.

• Please log in to the webinar 20 minutes before it is scheduled to commence. If you have any technical difficulties whilst trying to log in or during the session please contact e-learning@ersnet.org.
• Check Central European Time.
• To achieve the best quality, we recommend to avoid downloading anything from the internet during your connection to the lecture and stopping all other programmes.
• Please also ensure that your audio settings are not set to mute and adjust the volume to a comfortable level.