Description
Welcome to Infectious Disease (1.75 CME)
In this course we will cover all the common cases of Infectious disease that you will face in the hospital on a daily basis that were not covered in the other courses. From HIV in the hospital, to endocarditis, to Neutropenic fever and everything in between. By the end of this section, you should be done completing your knowledge about the common infectious disease cases that you will be faced with. This will be done through discussing real life cases, how the patients present, how to diagnose them and how to treat them according to the latest guidelines.
All the cases were reviewed with an Infectious Disease Specialist prior to submission.
4 videos. Total Duration – 1.48 (1 hour and 48 minutes)
Topics Covered in this course:
- Fever basics
- Tools to diagnose infection
- Pseudo bacteremia
- Antibiotics allergies
- Abx to cover MRSA
- Abx to cover Pseudomonas
- Illicit drug abusers
- Endocarditis
- Discitis/Vertebral osteomyelitis
- Septic Emboli
- ESBL infections
- Cellulitis
- Cellulitis not improving on po abx
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Fournier’s gangrene
- Diabetic foot infection
- Osteomyelitis
- Enterococci bacteremia
- TB
- Orbital Cellulitis- pre septal vs septal
- Parapharyngeal and Retropharyngeal Abscesses
- HIV screening
- Dysphagia in HIV
- HIV Cholangiopathy
- Cryptococcal meningitis
- PML vs HIV encephalopathy
- Brain Abscess
- IRIS- immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Response
- Fungemia
- Syphilis
- Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
- Neutropenic Fever
