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).

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Sepsis Shock Hospitals Infectious Diseases 52

RebelEM

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Background: Patients with sepsis are routinely treated with empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics while awaiting source identification, as recommended by the surviving sepsis campaign.2 Mortality of Patients With Sepsis Administered Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Cefepime. address in the article discussed below. JAMA Intern Med.

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Sepsis Outcomes Administration Shock 101

Pediatric EM Morsels

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In 2013 this number had reached over 1 billion (Leuthard 2015) Diarrhea is the most common travel-related diagnosis in multiple studies and accounts for around 40 – 60% (Leuthard 2015, Hagmann 2014) Systemic febrile illnesses (18%) and dermatologic disorders (17%) were the next most common (Hagmann 2014) Systemic febrile illnesses most commonly (..)

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Infectious Diseases Pediatrics Sepsis Documentation/Coding 164

PulmCCM

MARCH 4, 2024

While not IQ tests per se , the tests (branded as Cognitron ) purport to correlate well with, and to be indexed to, formal IQ tests. Thanks to the large data set, however, other demographics were well-represented and analyzable. Selection bias is baked into any self-selected survey sample such as this.

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Sepsis CDC Pediatrics Documentation/Coding 52

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

In popular (lay) understanding, SIDS represents a common danger that a well-cared for and apparently healthy baby will suddenly and terrifyingly be found dead in the morning. This sort of sepsis would produce many of the common autopsy findings. million babies born in 2020, and the CDC reports there were about 1,389 SIDS deaths.

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CDC Sepsis Research Pediatrics 93

EMDocs

JULY 26, 2023

2 In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the remaining stocks of variola virus to be destroyed or transferred to one of two designated biosafety level 4 facilities: the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia or the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia.

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CDC Research Pediatrics Wellness 88

PulmCCM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cefepime crosses the blood-brain barrier, and dozens of case reports have associated the drug with seizures, encephalopathy, delirium, and coma, with a possibly increased incidence of neurologic adverse effects among patients with renal failure or sepsis.

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