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

PEMBlog

Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Plus, well discuss whether M. Studies supporting antibiotic treatment of documented mycoplasma pneumoniae in children are limited.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

There is evidence that, for children and adults, elevated cortisol levels and chronic stress can lead to behavioral, mental-health, and mood issues, as well as changes in inflammation and immunity. In 2022 the CDC paid the AAP to form an expert working group to revise its developmental surveillance checklists.

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

American Medical Compliance

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. The year 2024 marks another significant chapter in the healthcare industry’s ongoing battle against infectious diseases, and the numbers speak volumes.

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Failure to thrive

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Failure to thrive’ has many definitions We use standardized charts to document infant growth. CDC growth charts are commonly used for children two years or older. Susan had issues initially with ensuring the correct latch, but after a review with a lactation consultant, feeding is going well. At the 6-week check, Luke is 3.54

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. “A CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. Confounders to the GCS such as seizure and post-ictal phase, ingestions and drug overdose, as well as medications administered in the prehospital setting that impact GCS score should be documented. Prehosp Emerg Care. J Safety Res.

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Bicycle Helmets/Bell Sports Recalls Giro Merit Bicycle Helmet Due to Safety Concerns/Helmet Giveaway

Medical Law

California Vehicle Code 21212 provides that all riders and passengers under the age of 18 are legally required to wear a helmet when using a bicycle, a non-motorized scooter, in-line roller skates, or a skateboard to travel along streets or bikeways, or on any other public bicycle path or trail.