Notes from Dr. RW
Hospitalist resources and more.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Invasive group A strep anecdote
A 44 year old nursing home employee jammed her hand in a wheel chair. Her thumb became red and swollen and she was dead within 3 days, evidently of group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. Read
here
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