Pneumonia Explained! Symptoms, Diagnosis, Labs, Treatment

Understand the pathophysiology of pneumonia, signs of pneumonia, the difference between community and healthcare acquired pneumonia infections, and the efficacy of pneumonia vaccines.

0:20 Pneumonia prevalence
1:04 What is pneumonia
2:08 Signs and symptoms of pneumonia
3:32 Community vs healthcare acquired pneumonia
4:44 Key history clues to the pneumonia type (klebsiella, coccidiomycosis, H. Influenza etc.)
7:58 Pneumonia vaccines

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Speaker: Roger Seheult, MD
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Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.

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[danielleboyd]

Your videos create a desire and an enthusiasm to learn. I listen to them all day long as I work from home. Thank you Dr Seheult and the Medcram Team.

[zxwmabcdef]

Psychosis is also a symptom in elderly people. My grandmother had psychosis and was taken to a psychiatrist. He did his little exam then talked to my parents and said he thought it was pneumonia and called for an ambulance and had them start iv antibiotics. It was pneumonia and she lived to tell about it.

[ml_serenity]

Wait! I can read your writing? Are you really a doctor??? :) Jokes aside, a great channel for people like me who doesn't know much about medicine. Thanks a lot

[karenmcardle]

Great explanation, Thank you, 3 times I've been unfortunate to have punomia, 1st time, my only tell tale signs were (blue lips )( 2nd time, my stats were fine, but my actions were completely insane, I was to get a bronchoscpy that day and not 1 health professional, even thought to ask if my actions were normal, and I had Haemophilus influenza.
As you can imagine, I was well out of sorts, thankfully the bronchoscpy couldn't go ahead, as my inner being kicked in, and the tube, inserted down my throat would not go past my voice box, I was also given something to knock me out and it never worked I was wide awake and was able to say, Dr you need to stop now or my body is going to start fighting, thankfully they stopped, I was sent home again and sent another appointment to go have a CT scan with contrast, I had also had 2 or 3 ct scans by now but it took the contrast to highlight the white mass, and collapsed lung, everytime I went near a Dr I would seem fine, once away, I would start wheezing, that bad, even members of the public were asking if I was ok, I had to say, yes (very breathless)& get on, I also have COPD and emphysema and asthma, I know how ill I was, even with ct scans, xray, s, I was healthy, and again .

[hrhra]

Great presentation as always. Thank you Dr. Sheult.

[howtomedicate]

Great video! I love to recap with your videos <3

[dianavarona]

Im one of those 450 million people that currently have pneumonia :’). My aunt was amongst one of the 4 million that died. This shit sucks

[LungSleep]

Another great explanation video MedCram. As a lung specialist, I often see CT scans where pneumonia can look like lung cancer. I have videos to demonstrate this to show the importance of Bronchoscopy and biopsy for select cases

[simhifree]

Rheumatoid arthritis can also be the reason. Especially, when not receiving the prednisone that the patient had been taking.

[Lisa_RNHealthHub]

Really helpful, thanks for the great videos

[MissValdostaFeedAndGrain]

Fantastic and informative video!! And what a great voice!! 👍

[margmacmillan]

What are the signs ofpneumonia, I havebeen coughing up yellowish phlem, also green?

[anguscole]

, I just found out my mother has pneumonia, she was In Chicago visiting my sister and her family with my father, my mother and father or flying home today, she went patient first and they prescribed her a medication cslled Doxycycline shes 74, not sure ow she got it though it sounds scary as I don't know much about pneumonia. Is Doxycycline affective for treating pneumonia in Adults as well how long until she feels better.thatnks as well say a prayer.she also has a slight heart issue murmur she takes meds for that issue

[avepeniston]

I’m sick 2 weeks now with coughing and I’m asthmatic. Treatment for asthma but i think its more based on how I’m feeling daily

[thunderdragon]

What about PCV 15 and PCV 20 ? Are they recommended and safe ?

[annieo]

I don’t have a spleen so I am immunised against pneumonia, among other vaccines, would I be protected against a Healthcare acquired infection?

[AlfrosimpleAlfromfz-dtnr]

Thank a lot doctor medcram for sharing this video to much helping I'm make to research find solution 😂😊🎉❤

[jamesd]

very useful information. in terms of % would you say that 50% of cases that come in are S. pneumoniae based? Would you know of a site which ranks cases based upon the type of bacteria? Acute & Strep make sense as it is a very aggressive bacteria.

[dixonqxq]

doesnt the left lung have only 2 lobes?