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The Latest in Critical Care, 10/30/23 (Issue #18)

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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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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

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And it can be hard to figure out what immuno competency by disease and vaccine status really means. And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. Not from the A A P, not from the Infectious Disease Society of America, not in Red Book, not anywhere.

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Updates on Onchocerciasis: Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

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Open-access image reference: By Giovanni Maki, derived from a CDC image at [link] – Basáñez M-G, Pion SDS, Churcher TS, Breitling LP, Little MP, et al. Elsevier; 2009:274-278. Microfilariae persist in the human host for 3– 5 years, a much shorter period of time than the adult female worm. 13 Figure 1. volvulus life cycle.

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EM@3AM: Neurosyphilis

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IgG Predominant with low IgM and absent IgA CSF VDRL is the gold standard test and the only non-treponemal test recommended by the CDC [4] The test lacks sensitivity (27-98.3%); the specificity is somewhere between 74-100% [17] Visibly blood-stained CSF should not be used for assessment. Penicillin remains the mainstay of treatment.

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Episode 23 - Influenza Diagnosis and Management in the Emergency Department

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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.