Thomas R Wallin,H Gene Hern,Bradley W Frazee
Thomas R Wallin
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged over the last decade across the United States and the world, becoming a major pathogen in many types of community-acquired infections. Although most comm...
Urinary tract infections: diagnosis and management in the emergency department [0.03%]
急诊科尿路感染的诊断和治疗
Donald L Norris nd,Jeremy D Young
Donald L Norris nd
With the emergence of increasing resistance to common antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), including ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), the choice of antibiotics for these infections has become ...
Joseph F Plouffe,Daniel R Martin
Joseph F Plouffe
Pneumonia remains one of the most common reasons for admission of emergency department (ED) patients to the hospital. Pneumonia also remains one of the most common causes of death in our patients. As with many emergent conditions, the ED ma...
Catherine A Marco,Richard E Rothman
Catherine A Marco
HIV infection is a common worldwide public health challenge affecting an estimated 40 million persons. In the United States, there have been over 900,000 cases of AIDS, and it is estimated that there are currently over 1 million HIV-infecte...
Diane L Gorgas
Diane L Gorgas
Infections in pregnancy and in the postpartum period represent an important knowledge base that emergency physicians should have. Being able to understand the risk that pregnancy-related infections have on maternal and fetal health in addit...
Jeffrey M Caterino
Jeffrey M Caterino
A significant proportion of elderly emergency department visits are for acute infections. The elderly are more likely than younger patients to have nonspecific signs and symptoms of infection, more severe disease, and resistant microorganis...
Acute bacterial meningitis [0.03%]
急性细菌性脑膜炎
Sharon E Mace
Sharon E Mace
Despite advances in medical care including antibiotics and vaccines, meningitis still has a high morbidity and mortality rate, especially in certain high-risk patients. Early diagnosis with the administration of appropriate antibiotics rema...
Rapidly fatal infections [0.03%]
致死迅速的感染性疾病
Diana Hans,Erin Kelly,Krista Wilhelmson et al.
Diana Hans et al.
Emergency physicians are trained to separate "sick" from "not sick" patients during their training. Nevertheless, every emergency physician will face situations in which early intervention is critical to their patient's outcome. Infectious ...
Jesse M Pines
Jesse M Pines
The importance of antibiotic timing is a common clinical question encountered in emergency medicine practice for patients who have severe infections. Various studies in the medical literature have reported associations between early antibio...
Daniel R Martin
Daniel R Martin