Welcome back to Morning Report! Today’s edition is presented by Dr. Alsup! Mammal bites Cat bites Deep puncture wounds, difficult to irrigate 10-40% rate of infections Staph, step and pasteurella multocida P. multocida, a highly virulent, facultatively anaerobic, gram-negative rod found in the oral cavity or nasopharynx of Read more…
“Exam room 3 is a sign out, 23 yo F, here for nausea, found to be pregnant. US shows IUP, good heart rate. No VB, has outside PMD. Got Zofran, tolerating PO. No urinary complaints, but we are waiting for her to give urine for the Urinalysis (UA). Discharge with Read more…
The Case 75 yo female, multiple medical problems presents with subjective fever/cough for 2 days. Work-up shows – nml VS, lactate 1 and left lower lobe infiltrate. Unfortunately she’s CURB-65 of 2 (age and BUN) with PORT score of 95. More importantly she lives by herself and doesn’t seem altogether Read more…
What is it good for? Something? Maybe? Remember in medical school when the right answer to everything was cytokines. The mythical inflammatory response; all those interleukins, TNFs, and all other forms of molecular magic that drive our response to infection. The so-called “pyrogens,” or molecular agents causing fever, are Read more…