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IBCC Episode 121 - Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia

The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast

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Antimicrobial Treatment for Pnumasisis

Treatment for pnumasisis is typically going to involve two things, your steroid to kind of tamp down the inflammation and t try m have the prim sulpha, mathoxs all. If you really have aabsolute contradication, then you can start pulling out your clinda micin permiquin combination. But i think people should be super comfortable kind of empirically treating folks with bactre men. It's not something that i'd run around to do all the time, but it's snonds like a huge deal. Like, we're told as medical students that if you screw up and give someone sep that doesn't need it, they get stepen. Nonsense

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