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Antibiotics for severe community-onset pneumonia 

Atypical coverage always 

- Usually azithromycin 500 mg daily 

- Doxycycline
piperacillin-tazobactam Septic Shock ... Structural lung ... only in selected cases ... #Acquired #Pneumonia ... #CAP #Antibiotics
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
- Sporadic cases ... blastomycosis – resembles community-acquired ... presentation of TB, lung ... Amphotericin B for 1- ... management #summary #fungal
Bronchiectasis - Permanent dilation of an airway
WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON CT?
1) Lack of tapering of
an airway WHAT CAN ... Bacterial, TB, NTM, Fungal ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary ... #diagnosis #differential ... #causes
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
• Affects 1:25,000 ... and 1:50,000 patients ... -> 40 years • Can ... frequent and severe community-acquired ... DDX - Other causes
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status NTM Cause ... and M. fortuitum can ... Complex (MAC): • Acquired ... patients such as: 1. ... Diagnosis Of NTM
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
clinical forms: 1) ... disseminated) can ... change in the lungs ... fever • Septic shock ... nails, bronchi, lungs
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
/50 Rule (part 1) ... amount of force is required ... and second ribs.1 ... Most commonly caused ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung