Pneumonia is an infection that causes inflammation in the air sacs of the lungs. These air sacs, called alveoli, can fill with fluid, making it difficult to breathe. The disease can be fatal, especially this time of year, when respiratory infections are more common, Choi said.
How does pneumonia lead to death?
For patients with pneumonia-related mortality, the most frequent causes of death were respiratory failure and neurological disease, while for patients with pneumonia-unrelated mortality, the most frequent causes of death were malignancy and cardiac disease.
What are the symptoms of dying from pneumonia?
What are the signs someone is approaching end of life?
- feeling more severely out of breath.
- reducing lung function making breathing harder.
- having frequent flare-ups.
- finding it difficult to maintain a healthy body weight due to loss of appetite.
- feeling more anxious and depressed.
