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IBCC Episode 121 - Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia

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Induce Putum for Tuberculosis?

This is like having patients inhale hyprotoix aline or something that's super irritating. And it essentially forces them to produce sputum. This is most often used to exclude tuberculosis and people who are being ruled out for tuberculosis. If someone's intimated, there's some evidence that you could just do re aspirate. Honestly, i feel like this is a little strange. Like if they'r intibated, iwould probably just brock them. But if you were like super lazy and didn't want to go to the hospital, er idont o,. You could theoretically, potentially, also do noter tr but the evidence here is not great, and i

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