Internal Medicine

Infection Prevention and Control

Questions discussed in this category

Would you use the pneumococcal conjugate-21 vaccine (Capvaxive) instead of the conjugate-20 (Prevnar-20) for routine vaccinations in immunosuppressed patients?

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What are your top takeaways from ID Week 2024?

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Are there any concerns with live vaccine innoculation and patients who are on denosumab?

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In drawing blood cultures from a central line to evaluate for CLABSI, do you advise drawing separate blood cultures from each port in case of dual or triple lumen line?

If yes, what is the rationale for doing that?

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Should checking a urinalysis with reflex to culture be part of the standard work up for fever in an ICU patient with a urinary catheter?

2 Answers available

In patients taking biologics who are planning joint replacement and are known MRSA carriers do you perform decolonization prior to surgery?

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Papers discussed in this category

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009-07-01

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2024 May 02

Should Blood Cultures Be Drawn Through an Indwelling Catheter?

Lupus, 2014 Jul 30

Serious infections in systemic lupus erythematosus with a focus on pneumococcal infections.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2024 Sep 12

Use of 21-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Among U.S. Adults: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2024.

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