The pretest clinical probability of cholecystitis for each individual patient - before ordering the test - is the most important determinant of the utility of the CT scan.
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The pretest clinical probability of cholecystitis for each individual patient - before ordering the test - is the most important determinant of the utility of the CT scan.
Staph meningitis and herpes encephalitis have quite distinct clinical, lab and radiol presentations, so acyclovir & vanco should not be needed together. In critically ill pts w/CNS bacterial infection, vancomycin w/TDM has more reliable tissue penetration than linezolid wt/TDM.
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Staph meningitis and herpes encephalitis have quite distinct clinical, lab and radiol presentations, so acyclovir & vanco should not be needed together. In critically ill pts w/CNS bacterial infection, vancomycin w/TDM has more reliable tissue penetration than linezolid wt/TDM.