Articles Tagged With: treatment
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Highlights from the CDC’s Updated 2021 Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines with important considerations for women’s health providers, such as new recommendations for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and Mycoplasma genitalium.
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Logistical, Economic Barriers Hinder Updated Treatment Options for Common Infection
The treatment options are evolving, but stubborn road blocks remain.
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Emergency Providers Urged to Recognize, Treat Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder
Opioid misuse might not be the only addiction-related problem that has worsened over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis highly suspect a 34% increase in alcohol sales in recent months means there has been a rise in the number of patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), too. But will these patients receive treatment for their AUD? If current trends hold true, not nearly enough.
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Updated Sexually Transmitted Infection Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated their recommendations for the treatment of several sexually transmitted infections, including gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and those due to Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium.
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Impaired Healthcare Workers Threaten Safety, But Also Need Support
Impaired healthcare workers (HCWs) can pose a serious threat to patient safety, but they must be handled carefully and with respect to their own health conditions. Risk managers must ensure their organizations are prepared to protect patient safety while also working to help impaired HCWs receive treatment and return to work. -
Watch Closely for Surge in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Cases
The list of long-term health problems affecting patients after recovering from COVID-19 continues growing. One of these lesser-known conditions is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Although treatments for POTS exist, the condition often is missed or misdiagnosed, leading to unnecessary suffering and anxiety for patients. However, given the condition’s recent visibility, frontline providers could gain a new understanding of POTS while also providing patients with a fast, accurate explanation for their symptoms. -
Is it Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease?
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease may be confused with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, resulting in inappropriate and hazardous treatments. Age at onset < 40 years, a family history of neuropathy, absence of nerve hypertrophy on magnetic resonance imaging, and poor response to intravenous immune globulin treatment should prompt a genetic evaluation.
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Quinacrine for Refractory Giardiasis
Quinacrine is highly effective in the treatment of giardiasis that is recalcitrant to initial therapy with other agents, but patients must be warned about neuropsychiatric effects. -
Treatment, Research Centers Trying to Solve Long COVID-19
Lingering COVID-19 symptoms in many patients may be the last and most insidious wave of the pandemic, since people who have been infected experience a prolonged, sometimes changing array of ill effects. The concern is that a subset of these cases will develop a kind of chronic COVID-19 that becomes a lifelong condition.
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Sepsis Report Could Help ED Malpractice Defense
Of the many different guidelines on early sepsis care in the ED, some specific recommendations remain controversial. A recently released report addresses many of these issues.