CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF SEPTIC PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN

Abstract

In clinical practice, when managing patients with severe pneumonia, the doctor, when determining treatment tactics, has to solve difficult issues related to the primary or secondary (septic) nature of pneumonia. In this regard, the presence of clear diagnostic criteria for sepsis, pneumonic sepsis, and septic shock in patients with severe pneumonia is of great importance, since it largely determines the tactics of patient management. Severe respiratory failure and/or signs of severe sepsis or septic shock with a predicted risk of an adverse outcome requiring intensive therapy characterize severe pneumonia.