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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Influenza Vaccine Less Effective in 2021-2022 Season; Every Hospital Needs an ID Doc
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Tularemia in the United States
Tularemia is seen in all U.S. states other than Hawaii. Therapy with tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, and fluoroquinolones is effective.
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Early Transition to Oral Antibiotic Therapy in Low-Risk Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection
Completion of therapy with oral antibiotics was shown to be non-inferior to continued intravenous therapy in patients considered to have low-risk Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
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Updated Recommendations for Pediatric Immunization
Just-released 2024 pediatric and adolescent immunization recommendations and schedules guide current vaccinations. Specifically, there are new recommendations for protection against COVID-19, dengue, mpox, pneumococcus, polio, and respiratory syncytial virus.
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Doxycycline Reduces the Risk of C. difficile Infection in Patients Treated for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
In a retrospective study from the VA, doxycycline was associated with a lower risk of C. difficile infection compared to azithromycin in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
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Ethical Considerations with After-the-Fact Informed Consent
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are seeking to validate a new technology to isolate and identify bacteria in the bloodstream of very sick patients — something that takes more than 24 hours using traditional blood cultures.
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Most ED Patients Overestimate Success of CPR
Emergency physicians routinely need to ask patients about their wishes for care if they go into cardiac arrest.
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Moral Distress Common in Pediatric ECMO Cases
At Boston Children’s Hospital, 4.5% of pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cases involved ethics consults, found authors of a recent study.
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Ethics Concerns over Undisclosed Conflicts in Psychiatric Guidelines
For six years, Brian J. Piper, PhD, has conducted studies on conflict of interest disclosures in the textbooks used to train physicians, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare providers.
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Many Ethical Questions Still Unresolved with Xenotransplantation
A group of experts recently convened to explore ethical and legal issues involved with xenotransplantation and attempted to delineate areas of consensus and areas where there is still controversy.