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Emergency Physician Provides HIV and Hepatitis C Testing, Counseling to Underserved Communities

ACEP Now

Today Dr. Calderon is known for her research into HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, but she didn’t start off on an academic track. At the time, those who wanted to get tested for HIV had to go to receive an hour of counseling and then wait a week for their results.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests in acute community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections.

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Antibiotics in the paediatric emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

However, results may take some time and, as such, rapid point-of-care tests are increasingly used. A throat culture is the gold standard for confirming a bacterial infection. Beware of false positives from colonisation of the throat with streptococcus. cited 2023 Jan 3]. Available from: [link] Rojas‐Reyes MX, Rugeles CG.