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Table 3. Suggested Empiric Treatment Options for Clinically Suspected Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Units Where Empiric Methicillin-Resistant
Treatment Options for Clinically ... Antipseudomonal/Gram-Negative ... Are Appropriate #Management ... #InfectiousDiseases
Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
AAST 2021 global clinical ... antimicrobials #infectiousdiseases ... #management #pharmacology
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
Diagnosis and Management ... spread of the Gram-negative ... typically part of the workup ... gonorrhea #Diagnosis #Management ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
Blood Culture-Negative ... microbiological techniques Work-up ... antimicrobials, clinical ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #differential ... #workup #infectiousdiseases
Diarrhea Workup and Management Algorithm in Transplant Patients
First Tier Microbiologic-Testing:
1. C. difficile PCR (Stool)
2. CMV qPCR
Diarrhea Workup ... and Management Algorithm ... above testing negative ... #Diarrhea #Workup ... Transplant #diagnosis #differential
Stroke Evaluation and Management Algorithm

Clinical suspicion of stroke (BE FAST)
 • Balance loss
 • Eyes: vision
Evaluation and Management ... Algorithm Clinical ... Immediate Workup ... Klaas #Stroke #Management ... Algorithm #diagnosis #differential
Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
Candidemia Workup ... and Management ... Susceptibilities, Negative ... or TEE unless clinical ... Additional metastatic workup
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • Epidemiology: 10-180/100,000, Typically Age 20-40, F:M
Diagnosis and Management ... 40, F:M 9:1 • Clinical ... • Immunologic Workup ... pANCA anti-MPO - Negative ... Usual therapeutic management
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
result with no clinical ... because false-negative ... sample = 95% • A negative ... Testing #Diagnosis #Workup ... LatentTB #ActiveTB #InfectiousDiseases