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Grand Rounds Recap 7.5.23
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Grand Rounds Recap 7.5.23

This week’s grand rounds started with excitement with an operations update and a scavenger hunt in the new ED, congrats Team 7 on the win! This was followed by forward thinking didactics on a new protocol for manual vacuum aspirations in the ED,

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Bug Juice Potpourri
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Bug Juice Potpourri

In this month's Journal Club, we covered several articles that looked at the use of antibiotics in the Emergency Department.  Does adding Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole to Cephalexin increase the rates of clinical cure in uncomplicated cellulitis? For patients receiving Vancomycin in the ED, how many are appropriately dosed and how many receive a sufficient number of doses to hopefully limit the emergence of resistant bacteria?  Are patients receiving Vancomycin and Piperacillin-Tazobactam really at increased risk of acute kidney injury?

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