Taming the SRU

JUNE 12, 2023

In 2008, this led to greater than 316,000 emergency department (ED) visits and about 9,500 hospitalizations [1]. However, there have been no studies statistically powered well enough regarding dog bite lacerations to confirm or dispute this claim. Clinical Infectious Diseases. In the United States, approximately 4.5

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PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Fever in the ICU: Guideline Update The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) issued an interim update to their 2008 recommendations for the management of fever in the ICU. Ultrasound is well-suited for identifying most serious biliary system abnormalities.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

As the name would suggest, inflammatory markers are biological markers of, well, inflammation. A 2008 review in the International Journal of Medicine on spinal epidural abscess (SEA) agreed that inflammatory markers (specifically ESR and CRP) are generally sensitive in the diagnosis of SEA, but are not specific. J Arthroplasty.

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Cook County EM Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Rabies, a neurotropic lyssavirus in the family rhabdoviridae, presents as a progressive encephalopathy known to have the highest case fatality rate of all known infectious diseases. Human Rabies Prevention – United States, 2008. If PEP is deemed necessary based on the factors above, the clinician should do the following: 1.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

. ■ Case 1 focuses on a case seen in the emergency department and explores the common parental query of a “weak immune system” in a young child who has had several recurrent upper respirator tract infections back-to-back but is otherwise well. His parents are both fit and well and there is no family history of any medical conditions.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Professional Medical Societies Call for Elimination of SEP-1 The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), along with societies for emergency medicine physicians and hospitalists, are again speaking up about the ongoing policy experiment known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1).

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EB Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: The information contained in this article comes from articles found on pubmed, the cochrane database, center for disease control, and the world health organization. Additionally, guidelines were reviewed from the american college of emergency physicians, infectious disease society of america, and the american academy of pediatrics.

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