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REVIEW: PEDIATRIC PNEUMONIA, ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

ABDUL RAHMAN SALEM ALTALHI

This review focuses on pneumonia in children, specially the most popular one community acquired pneumonia (CAP), its etiology, various diagnostic methods and treatment approaches. Following databases; Medline/PubMed, and Embase and Google scholar were comprehensively searched for articles that are concerned with etiology, diagnosis and management of Pediatric pneumonia, etiology, diagnosis and management, which published up to beginning of, 2020 with English language, and involving only human subject. Pneumonia is an inflammatory reaction of the lungs triggered by bacteria, viruses, or chemical toxic irritants. It is a major infection or inflammation in which the air sacs loaded with pus and also various other liquid. Medical diagnosis is normally made based upon the period and also the level of the illness. Based on these aspects, medical care provider may diagnose merely on a comprehensive history and health examination, but may consist of the following testing to verify the medical diagnosis. The combination of fever and also cough is suggestive for pneumonia; various other respiratory results (eg, tachypnea, boosted work of breathing) might precede the cough. Cough may not be an attribute originally since the alveoli have only a few cough receptors. Cough begins when the products of infection irritate cough receptors in the air passages. The longer fever, cough, and respiratory findings exist, the higher the likelihood of pneumonia.