Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Chlorhexidine Impregnated Dressings for Central Venous Catheters- Infection Prevention Benefit

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Well, this one seems like old news. Regardless, it was nice to see this review published by the Cochrane Database. The citation is found he...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Acute HIV Infection- Clinical Symptoms Are Not Reliable

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If clinicians feel that they can rely on typical symptoms of acute HIV infection to trigger an HIV PCR test for diagnosis, think again. H...
Monday, September 14, 2015

The Richard P. Wenzel Academic Infectious Diseases Consult Service at VCU Medial Center

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The ID service at VCU Medical Center has grown by leaps and bounds.  We now have two general infectious diseases consult services, alon...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Penicllin Allergy and MSSA Bacteremia- Time to (at least) Take a Proper Allergy History

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At a recent infectious diseases case conference at Virginia Commonwealth University we were discussing the mislabeling of penicillin allerg...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Chlorhexidine Bathing- The Saga Continues

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Here is an article on pre-surgical chlorhexidine bathing that it of interest. The abstract can be accessed here . The authors conducted ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Early Goal Directed Therapy of Sepsis- Congratulations to Ravi Gupta- VCU School of Medicine Graduate- May 2015

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Congratulations to Ravi Gupta, MD, a recent graduate of the VCU School of Medicine (May 2015). Ravi was the 1st author of a review on ea...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Dangers of Vaccine Refusal- Illness Onset at Later Age and with Greater Severity

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With the move toward mandatory influenza vaccination in my place of employment, this article seemed timely, published in The Lancet Infecti...