Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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Pro-Con Debate "Severe community-acquired pneumonia: a lung disease?"

Symposium
Chairs: R. Cosentini (Milan, Italy), M. Ferrer (Barcelona, Spain)
Aims: At the end of this symposium, participants will know:
- how to use severity scores according to their limitations and pitfalls;
- how to identify patients at risk of complication, assessing and treating acute respiratory failure and sepsis.

PRO: Severity scores are useful M. Woodhead (Manchester, United Kingdom)
CON: Severity scores are not useful J. Chalmers (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Outcome of severe pneumonia: respiratory failure matters R. Menendez Villanueva (Valencia, Spain)