Showing posts with label infectious disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infectious disease. Show all posts
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Nucleic acid testing for viral pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia

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  The American thoracic Society has published a guideline for this in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Med...

Could aspergillus be hiding out in your critically ill patient?

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  An issue from the American Journal of respiratory and Critical Care Medicine contains two articles and a related an editorial...

Antimicrobial resistance in critically ill patients

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  This review focuses mainly on gram-negative bacteria. Although it approaches the problem in light of the covid-19 pandemic i...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Myths and facts in antibiotic stewardship

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The current issue of the American Journal of Medicine (the Green Journal) has an article titled Top Myths of Diagnosis andManagement of Infe...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

The fight to curb antimicrobial resistance: how are we doing?

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  From a recent NEJM review on this topic : In November 2019, the CDC released an updated version of its antibiotic-resista...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Procalcitonin guided antibiotic treatment is beneficial in a variety of infections

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From a recent report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine : Rationale: Although early antimicrobial discont...
Monday, October 21, 2019

What are the risks for bad outcomes in patients admitted with influenza?

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From a recent study : Highlights A history of OSAS/CSAS, myocardial infarction and BMI greater...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Blood stream infections: how long to treat? When is PO sufficient?

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This review in the Journal of Hospital Medicine is an excellent resource.
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Antiplatelet therapy reduces mortality in sepsis

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From a recent meta-analysis : Highlights Antiplatelet drugs can reduce the mortality rate in p...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Should you get immunoglobulin levels on patients admitted with community acquired pneumonia?

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From a recent study : BACKGROUND: Immunodeficiency is an underrecognized risk factor for infections, such as communi...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Extended infusion protocols for piperacillin-tazobactam (PTZ): do they mitigate nephrotoxicity?

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Not in this study . From the paper: Our findings suggest a similar rate of nephrotoxicity between patients who rec...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Visceral fat: an inflammatory engine driving worse outcomes in sepsis?

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Recent study findings here .
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Triple antibiotic therapy against carbapenemase producing bacteria

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Here is a review on the topic. These regimens have been our go-to for a while now and are effective although the crude mort...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Systematic review and meta-analysis of tygecycline in bloodstream infections

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This paper is complex but seems to show that tygecycline is best in combination therapy .
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Increased risk of stroke after an episode of sepsis

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From a recent paper : Background and Purpose—Infections have been found to increase the risk of stroke over the shor...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Septic encephalopathy

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Free full text review .
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Reducing blood culture contamination with a special collection device

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Yes please : Background. Blood culture contamination is a clinically significant problem that results in pat...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Amp-C beta lactamase producing organisms

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From a recent review : BACKGROUND: Enterobacterales are among the most common causes of bacterial infections...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Procalcitonin monitoring can help shorten the duration of antibiotic therapy in pneumonia

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From a recent review : Abstract: Purpose of review: Increasing antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide pheno...

Can procalcitonin help predict the microbiology of community acquired pneumonia?

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From a recent study : Abstract Background. Recent trials suggest procalcitonin-based guidelines can ...