Archive

Medical Category: Infectious Disease

Emerging Tick-Borne Illnesses: Not Just Lyme Disease Part 1

Tick Borne Illness Tick-borne disease surveillance studies have shown increasing prevalence, transmission, and disease burden over the last decade. Tick-borne illnesses remain a public health threat and the true incidence remains unknown and is thought to be underrepresented. Although Lyme ...

Read More
Infectious Disease

REBEL Core Cast 43.0 – Measles + Antivax

Take Home Points Measles is highly infective: One infected person can infect approximately 10-20 unvaccinated people 2 doses of MMR is 97% protective Unvaccinated people can acquire measles from travel to endemic areas with low vaccination rates There is a ...

Read More
Infectious Disease

COVID-19: An EBM Take

The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.  The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and on March 11th, 2020, the outbreak was declared a global ...

Read More
Infectious Disease

The ATESS Trial: Time to Let Go of the Metabolic Cocktail

Background: The only well-established treatments for sepsis and septic shock are antibiotic therapy and source control.  Septic shock, the most severe form of sepsis, is characterized by circulatory and cellular metabolism abnormalities.  There have been a host of randomized controlled ...

Read More
Infectious Disease

Pearls from ResusX Rewired 2020

From Oct 6th – 8th, 2020, Haney Mallemat (@CriticalCareNow) and his team put on an absolutely amazing online critical care conference called ResusX Rewired.  ResusX is a conference designed by resuscitationists to provide clinicians with the most up to date ...

Read More
CardiovascularEndocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and ElectrolytesInfectious DiseaseProcedures and SkillsResuscitationThoracic and RespiratoryToxicologyTrauma

Sponsored