Resumen de Etiología y diagnóstico de la neumonía adquirida en la comunidad y sus formas complicadas

Anselmo Andrés-Martín, David Moreno Pérez, Santiago Alfayate Miguélez, José Antonio Couceiro Gianzo, María Luz García García, José Javier Korta Murua, María Isabel Martínez León, Carmen Muñoz Almagro, Ignacio Obando, G. Pérez Pérez

• Abstract Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is a common childhood disease, involving several paediatric subspecialties in its diagnosis and treatment. This has prompted the Spanish Society of Paediatric Pulmonology (SENP) and the Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (SEIP) to prepare a consensus document on the diagnosis of CAP, assessing the practical aspects by means of evidence-based medicine. It discusses the aetiology and epidemiology, with the current changes and the validity of certain laboratory tests, such as acute phase reactants, microbiological and imaging techniques, guiding the paediatricians in the real value of these tests.