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EM@3AM: Murine Typhus

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Clinical Infectious Diseases , vol. Ischemic Hepatitis and Septic Shock Secondary to Murine Typhus Infection in Pregnancy. 2017 Feb;166:16-24. State of the art of diagnosis of rickettsial diseases: the use of blood specimens for diagnosis of scrub typhus, spotted fever group rickettsiosis, and murine typhus.

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

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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. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Pneumonia 2017.

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Two Big Changes in Community Acquired Pneumonia Treatment

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As a result, the 2019 guidelines from the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) significantly rein in those patients who should receive empiric coverage for MRSA or P. An official clinical practice guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America. aeruginosa. 2019;200(7):e45–67.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

A 2017 review in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine reiterates that no single inflammatory markers (including CRP, ESR, and PCT) can be used as a stand-alone test to confirm or exclude infection, but instead advocates for using the tests as adjunctive information for emergency physicians to shape their pre-test probability of infection [26].

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The 79th Bubble Wrap x Bristol Royal Hospital For Children

Don't Forget the Bubbles

This study retrospectively identified 1,414 children, presenting to 15 UK EDs (2016 -2017), who had been screened for malaria. International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. The aim of this paper was to update and evaluate the criteria for sepsis and septic shock in children. Paediatr Int Child Health.

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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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Are we on the right TRACT? 

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Exclusion criteria included children with known chronic diseases, exclusively breast-fed infants , or those who had already received an immediate transfusion at presentation to the hospital prior to recruitment. 3,950 children were recruited between September 2014 to May 2017. Were the study groups similar at the start of the trial?