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Ensuring Safety and Comfort: 3M N95 Fit Test Training for Healthcare Providers 

American Medical Compliance

The year 2024 marks another significant chapter in the healthcare industry’s ongoing battle against infectious diseases, and the numbers speak volumes. The CDC’s FluSurv-NET system, a sentinel network of healthcare facilities, documented over 104,000 flu-related hospitalizations across 13 states during past flu seasons.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

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. Studies supporting antibiotic treatment of documented mycoplasma pneumoniae in children are limited.

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The resurgence of vaccine preventable infections: Measles and Pertussis

Don't Forget the Bubbles

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. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Measles facts [Internet]. cited 2024 Oct 24] WHO.

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

PulmCCM

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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Episode 27 - Emergency Department Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Pharmacology CME and Infectious Disease CME)

EB Medicine

Nachi: All the more reason we need evidence based guidelines, which our team from South Carolina has nicely laid out after reviewing 107 references dating back to 1990, as well as guidelines from the CDC and the national guideline clearinghouse. For the exam, have a chaperone present, whose name you can document. Jeff: Exactly.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 82: HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxis

EMDocs

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). Follow-up Patients should be referred to infectious disease and/or the local health department for follow-up testing. Contraindications Active HIV infection.

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Travel-Related Illnesses in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

In one ED study, ALL cases of missed travel-related illness did not have a documented travel history in their ED note , whereas 90% of the identified travel-related illnesses had a provider documented travel history (Greenky 2022) Those who are visiting friends and relatives (VFR) are typically at highest risk. Glob Pediatr Health.