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Medical Category: Infectious Disease

The CAP-IT Trial: Amoxicillin Dose and Duration in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Background/Introduction: The commonly cited duration of antibiotic therapy (7-14 days) for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has historically been based on arbitrary timelines extrapolated from a desire to prevent treatment failures and avoid under-treatment rather than evidence-based medicine. Even the original literature on …

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Infectious DiseasePediatrics

REBEL Cast Ep103: Outpatient COVID-19 Therapy

I was fortunate enough to record a podcast on Rob Orman’s, Stimulus podcast on Oct 14th, 2021.  We both felt it was an important enough topic that we should post it on both his and my site.  The treatment of …

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Infectious Disease

Rebellion21: Not Your Gallbladder – Clutch US Diagnoses in RUQ Pain via Jennifer Carnell, MD

In this 17-minute presentation from Rebellion in EM 2021, Dr. Jennifer Carnell, MD demonstrates how ultrasound can be used to make a diversity of diagnoses in patients with right upper quadrant pain beyond ultrasound’s expected use in the diagnosis of …

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Abdominal and GastroinstestinalCardiovascularInfectious DiseaseThoracic and Respiratory

The DisCoVeRy Trial: Remdesivir in COVID-19 – An Expensive Version of Tamiflu?

Background: Since the beginning of the pandemic, hundreds of trials have been  performed looking at medications with the potential to be repurposed for use against COVID19. To date, no antiviral medications directed at SARS-CoV-2 have shown any convincing evidence of …

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Infectious Disease

Rebellion 21: Clap Back – Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Updates via Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD

Infection rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia have been on the rise in the United States for many years.  In addition, N. gonorrhoeae has the ability to rapidly acquire resistance to antibiotics.  In 2020, the CDC released updated guidelines for the …

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Infectious Disease

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