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Does anyone remember signing out as residents, how there is always a line that goes something along the lines of “if fever, then culture.” As in fever always means there is an infection, or at least a suspicion of it. Of course, fever means inflammation but infection is a type of inflammation so why not
I am willing to bet most of the people that come across this blog remember a time when you took organic chemistry. While I do not find this topic particularly interesting, mass spectrometry was briefly touched upon. This is an analytical tool that measures the mass of different molecules within a sample by measuring their
Blood cultures are the gold standard for evaluating patients with suspected bacteremia. They are an indispensable tool in evaluating diseases such as infective endocarditis, septic shock, meningitis, and pneumonia. By far, it is relatively simple to interpret the results (its either positive or negative) though whether it represents a clinically relevant entity or contamination is
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