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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... Acquired Pneumonia ... SCAP severe community-acquired ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Management #Treatment
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... post-ABx, but can be community-acquired ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1 ... #treatment #infectiousdiseases
Bacteremia Quick Reference - Treatment Duration

Gram Negative Bacteremia:
 • Avoid: Aminoglycosides and tigecycline
 • Catheters should
Quick Reference - Treatment ... removed in septic shock ... follow up cultures required ... #Management #Duration ... #infectiousdiseases
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
the majority of infections ... Incubation period is 1- ... malaise • Septic shock ... microbiology #zoonotic #infectiousdiseases ... #diagnosis #management
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Community Acquired ... Diagnosis and Management ... Pneumonia Signs ... Egophony (May appear 1- ... #Community #Acquired
CSF Penetration of Antimicrobials

Despite the poor CSF penetration, beta-lactams have the most research documenting successful treatment
of community-acquired ... antibiotic classes. 1 ... in clinical CNS infections ... of CNS infections ... Antimicrobials #InfectiousDiseases
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
systemic sx + signs ... vasculitis vs infection ... Treatment of GCA ... GCA #Temporal #Signs ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Management
Fusarium Infections
Acquired through:
1. Inhalation of airborne conidia > germinates > blood > disseminated
2. Trauma (implantation with
Acquired through ... : 1. ... disease: • Optimal treatment ... #infectiousdiseases ... #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Treatment ... clinical forms: 1) ... fever • Septic shock ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management