# Commission Implementing Decision of 8 August 2012 amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2012) 5538) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/506/EU), Division 3.1.10: PN: PNEUMONIA

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Two or more serial chest X-rays or CT-scans with a suggestive image of pneumonia for patients with underlying cardiac or pulmonary disease. In patients without underlying cardiac or pulmonary disease one definitive chest X-ray or CT-scan is sufficient
AND at least one of the following symptoms
Fever > 38 °C with no other cause
Leucopoenia (< 4 000 WBC/mm3) or leucocytosis (≥ 12 000 WBC/mm3)
AND at least one of the following (or at least two if clinical pneumonia only = PN 4 and PN 5)
New onset of purulent sputum, or change in character of sputum (colour, odour, quantity, consistency)
Cough or dyspnoea or tachypnea
Suggestive auscultation (rales or bronchial breath sounds), ronchi, wheezing
Worsening gas exchange (e.g. O2 desaturation or increased oxygen requirements or increased ventilation demand)
and according to the used diagnostic method

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/506/annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.10
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