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Choosing a Control Group

Sensible Medicine

It was covered by 194 news outlets and tweeted by nearly 2000 accounts, including some very high profile doctors. Summation In this science experiment, the authors did imaging of patients who had just been discharged from a near-week-long hospital stay for an acute infectious disease.

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Discitis

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2000 Jun 1;105. Diskitis in Children. 1993 Jul 1;17(1). du Lac P, Panuel M, Devred P, Bollini G, Padovani J. MRI of disc space infection in infants and children. Pediatric Radiology. 1990 Jan;20. Fernandez M, Carrol CL, Baker CJ. Discitis and Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Children: An 18-Year Review.

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Choosing a Control Group

Sensible Medicine

It was covered by 194 news outlets and tweeted by nearly 2000 accounts, including some very high profile doctors. Summation In this science experiment, the authors did imaging of patients who had just been discharged from a near-week-long hospital stay for an acute infectious disease.

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How Late Can You Give Routine Newborn Care?

Pediatric Education

Common routine treatment that parents may refuse includes: Hepatitis B vaccine is recommended to be given to all medically stable newborns of > 2000 gram birth weight in the United States to prevent vertical transmission and possible chronic hepatitis in the newborn. The author does not advocate alternative treatments or schedules.

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Docusate for Cerumen Impaction? I Sh*t You Not

Critical Care Now

Interests include trauma, toxicology, and infectious diseases. 2000; 36(3): 228 – 32. Reading Time: 5 minutes Ruben Santiago Emergency Medicine Pharmacist and medication hustler at a level I trauma center in Miami, FL. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017; 156(1_suppl): S1 – S29. Singer A, Sauris E, Vicellio A. Ann Emerg Med.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

Spinal Infection: According to the Infectious Disease Society of America’s (IDSA) 2015 guidelines for native vertebral osteomyelitis, CRP and ESR in the setting of protracted back pain have sensitivities ranging from 94 to 100% for ruling out infection and malignancy in these patients. J Arthroplasty. 2019 Feb;34(2S):S187-S195.

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EM@3AM: Oropharyngeal Candidiasis

EMDocs

Sobel, Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Clinical Infectious Diseases , Volume 62, Issue 4, 15 February 2016, Pages e1–e50, [link] Iacopino AM, Wathen WF. Clin Mol Allergy. 2020 Nov 7;18(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s12948-020-00137-2.

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