Society guideline links: Pediatric pneumonia

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Clinical care of severe acute respiratory infections – Tool kit (2022)

●WHO: Oxygen therapy for children – A manual for health workers (2016)

●WHO: Guideline for managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible (2015)

●WHO: Revised classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia at health facilities – Evidence summaries (2014)

●WHO: Pocket book of hospital care for children – Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses, second edition (2013)

●WHO: Recommendations on the management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in HIV-infected infants and children (2010)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't routinely use antibiotics other than amoxicillin in the treatment of children with presumed community-acquired pneumonia (in the outpatient setting) (2020)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on paediatric complicated pneumonia – Diagnosis and management of empyema (2018)

●CPS: Uncomplicated pneumonia in healthy Canadian children and youth – Practice points for management (2018)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2021)

•Chlamydia trachomatis

•Haemophilus influenzae infections

•Mycoplasma pneumoniae and other Mycoplasma species infections

•Staphylococcus aureus

•Strategies to prevent health care-associated infections

•Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcal) infections

●Choosing Wisely: Do not prescribe IV antibiotics for predetermined durations for patients hospitalized with infections such as pyelonephritis, osteomyelitis and complicated pneumonia. Consider early transition to oral antibiotics (2021)

●Choosing Wisely: Do not use broad-spectrum antibiotics such as ceftriaxone for children hospitalized with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia. Use narrow-spectrum antibiotics such as penicillin, ampicillin or amoxicillin (2021)

●Choosing Wisely: Do not routinely use airway clearance therapy in conditions such as asthma, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on pneumonia in the immunocompetent child (2019)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't treat uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia in otherwise healthy, immunized, hospitalized patients with antibiotic therapy broader than ampicillin (2018)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Guideline for preventing healthcare-associated pneumonia (2003)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on pneumonia (community-acquired) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)

●NICE: Guideline on pneumonia (hospital-acquired) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)