S2 Ep21: Things We Do For No Reason in Pediatrics #2: How to stop relying on blood cultures and X-rays!
The Cribsiders
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The Problem With Chest Tubes for Pneumonia
The vast, vast majority aren't bacterial in nature to begin with. So the likelihood that you're going to get a positive blood culture from a kid who has a viral pneumonia is almost never. It's interesting even in adults actually when they looked, most pneumonias are caused by virus. And that is what I hope one day we actually have is a more definitive test that can tell us viral versus bacterial because the CRP as much as we love them.
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