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Editor(s)-in-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. ; Philip Marcus, M.D., M.P.H.

Differentiating Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia from other Diseases

• Atelectasis
• Congestive heart failure
• Pulmonary embolism

Differentiating Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia from other Diseases

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome
• Aspiration pneumonitis
• Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
• Drug reaction
• Infiltrative tumor
• Lung contusion
• Pulmonary embolism
• Pulmonary hemorrhage
• Radiation pneumonitis