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Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Antibiotics for ... Intraabdominal Infection ... AAST 2021 global clinical ... infectiousdiseases #management #pharmacology ... #treatment
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... respiratory distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
Clinical Disease ... Disease Note: Treatment ... clinical manifestation ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Antifungal Echinocandins  - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Inhibit glucan synthesis in fungal cell wall by blocking
Echinocandins - Antibiotics ... severe Candida infections ... usually works clinically ... Anidulafungin #Pharmacology ... #Antibiotics #Review
Debridement and Management of Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI)
Duration of symptoms <3 weeks OR  <30 days
Prosthetic Joint Infection ... Debridement & implant retention ... future surgeries all ... sx of relapsed infection ... #treatment #Debridement
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
response preceding infection ... meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... complete paralysis of all ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... Treatment: • Plasmapheresis
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
: Overwhelming clinical ... syndrome associated ... can mimic common infections ... : • Infection ... rapidly, and empiric antibiotic
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
petechiae) • Frequent infections ... isoniazid) • Antibiotics ... • Parvovirus infection ... factor (GCSF) treatments ... marrow studies Treatment
Aplastic Anemia - Overview

Who?
• M = F
• 3 peaks:	1) Childhood	2) 15-25 years	3) >60 years

What?
• Aplastic anemia
Aplastic Anemia Clinical ... Neutropenia - recurrent infections ... - β-lactam antibiotics ... Idiopathic • Infections ... aplastic anemia Treatment
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
& Dry) is the treatment ... emphasis placed on prevention ... acute coronary syndrome ... then placed on prevention ... #pharmacology