Question

A 70-year-old woman presents with fever, productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. CURB-65 score is 3. You diagnose community-acquired pneumonia. What is the most appropriate site of care and initial management?

Accepted Answer

Admit to hospital with intravenous dual antibiotic therapy

Answer

Outpatient oral Amoxicillin alone

Answer

Outpatient oral Doxycycline alone

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Admit to ICU for mechanical ventilation in all cases with CURB-65 ≥2

Answer

Give no antibiotics until sputum culture results

Practice question

A 70-year-old woman presents with fever, productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. CURB-65 score is 3. You diagnose community-acquired pneumonia. What is the most appropriate site of care and initial management?