Issue 1 (2009)

The modern tactics questions of the patient with extrahospital pneumonia treatment at the outpatient and hospital stages are regarded. It is demonstrated, that it’s necessary to follow a combined diagnostic approach concept, considering etiology in a disease diagnosis, presuming a consideration of the clinical signs, roentgenologic, laboratory and microbiological defining signs, and to assess a clinical effectiveness of the conducted treatment as well; their defining criteria are regarded. The standards of the antibiotic modern use presume consideration of a pneumonia gravity degree, an age and attendant diseases. The peculiarities of antibacterial treatment at the different gravity degree pneumonias at a hospital are regarded.