Abstract

Successful treatment of acute diseases largely depends on the adequacy of first aid. Analysis of such aid and its results in severe forms of acute pneumonia (AP) shows that the initial treatment of this disease does not correspond to the meaning of such a term. The reason for the existing discrepancy is the negative didactic effect of the long-term priority of antibiotics in the treatment of such patients. Such an important feature of this disease as the uniqueness of the functions of the lung tissue remains outside the theoretical and practical implementation. The existing interpretations of the manifestations of AP contribute to the unfounded diagnosis of sepsis, and the results of treatment cause deep concern among specialists. The long-overdue discrepancy between the doctrine of the disease and the observed facts of medical practice has now acquired a pronounced manifestation, which requires the need for a radical revision of views with subsequent correction of treatment principles.