Brief Note: This article is a methods-only paper. The results of the Nexus study will be discussed in next week’s 52-in-52 Pearl. Article Citation: Hoffman JR, Wolfson AB, Todd K, Mower WR. Selective cervical spine radiography in blun…
Pearl: When reading the antibiotic sensitivity chart for your patient’s current (or former) infection, you cannot use the MIC numerical values to compare antibiotics. Just stick to sensitive/resistant. Question: When you look up the a…
Pearl: For patients with a true penicillin allergy, especially a Type I (IgE) reaction, increased cross-reactivity with first generation cephalosporins is real, but with third generation is not. Background: Some of us were taught a cross-re…