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Medical Category: Infectious Disease

Do Patients with Strep Throat Need to Be Treated with Antibiotics?

Background: Streptococcal pharyngitis is a common presentation to primary care and Emergency Department physicians. Every year, 10 million patients in the United States are treated with antibiotics for pharyngitis. However, less than 10% of these patients actually have strep pharyngitis (Barnett ...

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Infectious Disease

REBEL Cast Episode 3: NIPPV in Pre-Hospital Respiratory Distress & Dalbavancin for Skin Infections

Welcome to the September REBELCast 2014, where Matt, Swami, and I are going to tackle a couple more scenarios to help your clinical practice.  Today, we are going to specifically tackle two different topics: Topic #1: The use of Non-Invasive ...

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Infectious DiseaseResuscitation

Medical Myths in the Management of Dog Bites

Animal bites are a common cause of injury in the United States. About 4.5 million Americans/year (5% of all traumatic wounds in the ED) will sustain a bite injury. Dog bites compromise a majority of these wounds. The classic teaching ...

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Infectious Disease

REBEL Cast Episode 1: Clinically Important Biphasic Anaphylaxis & Total Lymphocyte Count as a Surrogate Marker for CD4

Welcome to REBEL Cast Episode 1, where Matt, Swami, and I are going to tackle a couple of scenarios to help your clinical practice.  Today, we are going to specifically tackle two different topics: Topic #1: Clinically Important Biphasic Anaphylaxis ...

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Allergy and ImmunologyInfectious Disease

REBEL Review 58: Antimicrobial Chemoprophylaxis in Meningococcal Disease

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