Abstract
A healthy 28-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with 2 days of malaise. On the day of presentation, she complained of dyspnea. The clinical findings (fever, shock, altered consciousness, and bilateral pulmonary shadows on chest imaging) were consistent with severe community-acquired pneumonia. Soon after presentation, she suffered from sudden cardiopulmonary arrest, and died two hours later. Later, cultures of sputum and blood grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and she was given a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia due to P. aeruginosa.