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Clinical Conundrums: Should You Give the First Dose of Antibiotics IV Before Discharging Home on Oral Antibiotics?

RebelEM

Except for patients with poor gut absorption or those with critical infectious processes such as septic shock or necrotizing fasciitis, this belief appears to be unfounded. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2001; 111(5):367-74. 2006; 333(7580):1193. PMID: 17090560 Castro-Guardiola A et al. The American journal of medicine.

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How to prevent central line infections

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per 1,000 central-line days between 2001 and 2009. For example, a patient who presented with shock and mitral regurgitation, received a central line for vasopressors on day 0, and was found to have bacteremia from blood cultures drawn on day 3 due to endocarditis would have a CLABSI, but not a CRBSI. also decreased from 3.64

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Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Septic Shock?

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septic shock). Most of the research on the use of MB has been in patients with vasoplegia following cardiopulmonary bypass. Limited, small studies on its use in septic shock do not make a clear argument for use. Early Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Patients with Septic Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Crit Care 2023.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Borgialli DA, Mahajan P, Hoyle JD Jr, Powell EC, Nadel FM, Tunik MG, Foerster A, Dong L, Miskin M, Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). 2001 Apr;68(4):311-4. Systematic review showed 85% of studies with substantial reliability with kappa statistic >0.6 PMID: 1933914.

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An Herbal Hope: Is XBJ A Game-Changer in Sepsis Management?

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This varies from the 2001 definition, which used SIRS criteria and was thought to overly focus on inflammation. in both groups Mean APACHE II score was 12 in both groups Almost half of the patients had septic shock at enrollment Mean time from sepsis identification to randomization was 1.4 906 randomized to the Placebo cohort.

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Episode 21- Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock

EB Medicine

This month, we’ll be talking Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock. Optimal management of septic patients has been a source of intense research, stemming from the landmark study by Rivers in 2001. Then in 2001, sepsis-2 was introduced. Jeremy : Rivers was a real pioneer.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

He was shocked when the hospital CEO took him up on it, but a year later, volumes increased 30 percent with his emphasis on quality rather than cost-cutting. Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Finance research letters, forthcoming. But maybe that was never the intention,” she speculates. 28 Dr. The New Yorker.

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