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Chronic Q fever is a frequent and potentially lethal complication of acute infection that may first be diagnosed a decade afterward.
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A six-week course of antibiotic therapy was “not noninferior” to a 12-week course in patients with prosthetic joint infection, at least in those who had undergone debridement and implant retention.
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For children with acute vomiting (but not diarrhea), rapid rectal swab testing for bacterial and viral pathogens has potential for helping clinicians confirm a diagnosis of gastroenteritis and, thus, avoid unnecessary evaluation for other diagnoses.
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The diagnosis of malaria depends on detection of the parasite, but the spleen is where the money is.
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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of adults aged 18 years and older found that adjunctive daptomycin did not shorten the duration of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia compared to monotherapy with an antistaphylococcal beta-lactam antibiotic.
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The need for hospitalization because of COVID-19 is significantly less in adolescents than in older age groups, but nearly one-third of those hospitalized require intensive care unit admission.
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Optimizing positive end-expiratory pressure to minimize driving pressure may be a better strategy for ventilator adjustment than maximizing partial pressure of arterial oxygen/fraction of inspired oxygen (P/F) ratios to improve outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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In this prospective uncontrolled cohort study of COVID-19 survivors performed four months after their hospitalization, many patients reported at least one symptom not previously present, and abnormalities on lung computed tomography scan were common.
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High airway pressure is required to recruit lung atelectasis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and body mass index ≥ 35 kg/m2.
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Phenylephrine pushes in septic patients were associated with early hemodynamic stability, but higher intensive care unit mortality.
