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Perspectives and Opinions: Old and New

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For an infectious disease physician practicing at the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Lexington, in some ways the environment

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Code Sepsis

May 1, 2019June 21, 2019 Gil Dunn A., acute hemispheric stroke, adopt code sepsis, antimicrobial lab, antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial stewardship program, asp, bedside staff, blood culture, BS, bug-to-drug, bug-to-drug mismatch, care emergency facility, care unit, cath lab, certification, certification award, chi, chi saint, CIC, clinical parameter, clinical pharmacy specialist, code sepsis, code sepsis protocol, commission 's sepsis, commission sepsis certification, control committee, Dana Stephens, detection, disease consultant, draw blood culture, early detection, effective marker, emergency, emergency room, epidemiologist, ER door, FAPIC, hospital epidemiologist, image001 photo, inadequate tissue profusion, infection, infection control, infection prevention, infectious disease, joint commission 's sepsis, joint commission sepsis certification, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital, Judd, Kennedy, Kentucky, lactic acid level, Lexington, Lexington infectious disease consultant, market director, MDRO, MDROs, MT, patient 's therapy, patient mortality rate, patient outcome, pharmacy, pharmacy specialist, PharmD, photo, prevention, protocol, rapid administration of antibiotic, reaction time response, resistant organism, result of year of plan, RMD, rooftop, sepsis, sepsis certification, sepsis committee, septic shock, severe sepsis, stewardship, stewardship program, suspected site of infection, tertiary care emergency facility, Tim Webb Charles, Tim Webb Charles A., tissue profusion, university of Washington school of medicine, volume resuscitation

LEXINGTON About ten years ago, Charles A. Kennedy, MD, hospital epidemiologist at Saint Joseph Hospital, queried, “If we can take

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Physician Viewpoint

Travel Medicine

February 1, 2014 Rebecca D. Shadowen, MD, FSHEA active effort, adult polio vaccine, anti-diarrheal, anti-diarrheal agent, anti-malarial therapy, area of travel, Bowling, drug interaction, emerge information, episodic treatment, exposure, fever, five minute video, H5N1/H7N9, H5N1/H7N9 avian influenza, hepatitis, infection, infectious disease, influenza, injection vaccine series, Japanese encephalitis virus, Kentucky, long duration of immunity, medical co-morbidity, medication, medicine, Meningiococus, mild arrhythmia, motion sickness medication, multiple injection vaccine series, occasional vaccine, oral live attenuated vaccine, Pneumovax, potential blood, practice of travel medicine, pre-travel, pre-travel evaluation, pre-travel screen, prophylaxis, purpose of travel, regimen, repellent use, seek healthcare, self-treat, self-treatment, self-treatment option, send traveler, sexual exposure, significant amount of travel day, simple infection, simple infection of the lung, simple written instruction, skilled travel medicine specialist, sleep agent, specialist, specific counsel, TDAP, travel medicine, travel medicine service, travel medicine specialist, traveler, traveler 's specific risk exposure, vaccination, vaccine, yellow fever

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page,” said St Augustine. There are

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