<![CDATA[Pneumonia is an acute infection or inflammation of the lung parenchyma caused by a microorganism infection. Community-acquired pneumonia is the most serious type of infection. This is consistent with the number of hospitalizations, which is followed by an increase in cases, serious complications, and is the leading cause of death among other infectious diseases. The type of research used in this study is descriptive qualitative with a case study approach. Qualitative research is research that produces descriptive data, descriptions in the form of written or spoken words of the behavior of the people being observed. Case studies are included in descriptive analysis research, which is research conducted by focusing on a specific case to be observed and analyzed carefully and thoroughly. The results of this study show that the procedure for managing the thorax with clinical pneumonia at the Radiology Department of the Bhayangkara TK.III Ambon Hospital does not use a specific protocol. The projections used are AP (antero-posterior) and PA (postero-anterior), where the AP projection is used if the patient is uncooperative and the PA projection is used when the patient is cooperative.]]>
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