On the need to revive first and emergency care for acute pneumonia.

The former term for one of the oldest nosologies known to medicine, “acute pneumonia” (AP), which specifically reflected the inflammatory essence and basis of the disease, has practically ceased to be used in recent decades. Today, the majority of patients with AP appear under the term “community-acquired pneumonia” (CP), and the remaining patients with acute inflammation of the lung tissue are defined as “nosocomial pneumonia”, “ventilator-associated pneumonia”, “COVID-19 pneumonia,” etc. First of all, attention is drawn to the disappearance from the names of all these variants of the disease of such an important and characteristic feature as an indication of the acute development of the process. This circumstance, like the very appearance of the above classification of the disease, is a very symptomatic fact for modern ideas about the nature of this pathology and the established traditions of its long-term treatment.