Community acquired pneumonia – new guidelines, major advances?
Symposium Chairs: E. Polverino (Barcelona, Spain), G. Rohde (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Aims: To appraise the recommendations of the new CAP guidelines and revisit important advances and drawbacks of the new recommendations to clinical care; to evaluate established and emerging evidence on complementary diagnostic methods in patients with suspicion of CAP; to revise the management of immunocompromised patients with suspicion of CAP; to discuss alternative diagnosis and management in non-resolving CAP and associated pleural infection.