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#378 Acute Exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD)

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COPD Exacerbation - Is There a Risk of Colonization?

The next piece is maybe just me being an ignorant hospitalist and, you know, if someone's being admitted to the hospital for COPD exacerbation, I just assume they need to be an antibiotic. Yeah, antibiotics in somebody with a severe COPD exacerbations are probably helpful. A third-generation cephalosporin is very good. Levoquine as a lung-related fluoroquinolone is helpful. Moxifloxin isn't used anywhere. So I would be with you on merit of thumb, judging each individual patient based on their merits and etc. Okay. Now please tell me I am right so that we can move on and then just be

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