CDC Infectious Diseases Outcomes 
PulmCCM
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Sepsis, infectious disease Managing septic shock with a restrictive-fluids approach (preferentially using vasopressors after a single liter crystalloid bolus) led to similar outcomes as the usual practice of bolusing large volumes of fluids first. Vitamin C did not improve outcomes among patients hospitalized with Covid-19.
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.,
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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).
American Medical Compliance
MARCH 12, 2025
Our Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is committed to enhancing the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of healthcare providers to improve patient care outcomes. CDC has documented rare cases of patients contracting HIV in healthcare settings from infected donor tissue.
ALiEM
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Serological studies in disseminated disease are highly sensitive and the CDC recommends two-step testing such as an enzyme immunoassay or immunofluorescent antibody assay followed by a Western blot if the initial testing is positive or equivocal. Lyme Disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Clin Infect Dis.
Sensible Medicine
MARCH 25, 2025
During COVID-19, billions of dollars tracked limited outcomes like mortality rates, while crucial issues such as mental health, addiction, and chronic diseases were overlooked due to fragmented data systems that made simply assembling and analyzing data a herculean effort. He is also the Head of Strategy for Medeloop.
EMDocs
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Vision loss carries a high degree of morbidity and is associated with higher all-cause mortality, 4 and it is our role as emergency providers to recognize potentially reversible causes of such adverse outcomes. million infected people suffer from skin disease and 1.15 7 Approximately 14.6 million from partial or complete blindness.
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