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#378 Acute Exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD)

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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The Mainstay of Treatment for Pneumococcal Pneumonia

If you found out that it was another virus, would you ever peel off the antibiotics? Or are you trying to get the anti-inflammatory effect from them that you would keep it on regardless of the viral panel? No. Well, I mean, there's a lot of co-infection. Okay. So do you want to just start by walking us through what kind of dose treatment, all that good stuff? Yeah. The short-acting bronchodilators, yes, not the long-acting. If we're going to pick one to use, it would be a llama over a lava or llama-lava for gold three or gold four patients.

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