Administration CDC Infectious Diseases 
PEMBlog
MARCH 4, 2025
Per the CDC, diagnosed mycoplasma infections increased steadily through the summer of 2024, peaking in August for 2 to 4 year olds and 5 to 17 year old age groups. We also don’t know whether administration of antibiotics decreases the incidence or severity of associated mucocutaneous disease. I can’t bear it.
Pediatric EM Morsels
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Another change is the CDC approved the use of IV artesunate for malaria treatment in the US in May 2022. This allowed US hospitals to stock the drug to ensure quick treatment of suspected severe cases, rather than having to ship it from the CDC under the prior expanded-access protocol (Thomas 2023). Clin Microbiol Rev. Clin Infect Dis.
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RebelEM
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or what the CDC recently renamed infection-related ventilator-associated complication (IVAC), is defined as a nosocomial pneumonia occurring on day 3 of mechanical ventilation that was preceded by 2 days of stable or decreasing ventilator requirements. 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,
Don't Forget the Bubbles
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Whooping Cough: A Cyclical but Preventable Disease Whooping cough, caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis , is another infectious disease experiencing a resurgence despite the availability of vaccines. These outbreaks increase the risk of imported cases in other regions, including the UK.
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).
EMDocs
JULY 25, 2023
You can view these alternative regimens in the CDC Clinical Practice Guidelines; we will provide a link in the show notes ( [link] , pages 31-32). PEP administration will breed resistance! Follow-up Patients should be referred to infectious disease and/or the local health department for follow-up testing.
Pediatric Education
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Specific testing for toxin is by an immunodiffusion assay called the Elek test which is only performed by the CDC in the U.S. Diphtheria is a reportable disease in the U.S. What other infectious diseases are toxin-mediated? What are recommendations for tetanus shot administration for wounds?
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