Do Emergency Department Blood Cultures Change Practice in Patients With Pneumonia?

UF EM Journal Club - 01/20/2011
Do Emergency Department Blood Cultures Change Practice in Patients With Pneumonia?

Study objective: Although it is considered standard of care to obtain blood cultures on patients hospitalized for pneumonia, several studies have questioned the utility and cost-effectiveness of this practice. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of emergency department (ED) blood cultures on antimicrobial therapy for patients with pneumonia.

Please print and have this article ready for conference.

Traumatic Pedatric Lacerations Repair / Gut vs Nylon Sutures

UF EM Journal Club - 01/25/11

Hi all
This is my article for our journal club on Jan 25th:

CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS ARTICLE - LINK
A Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing Long-term
Cosmetic Outcomes of Traumatic Pediatric
Lacerations Repaired with Absorbable Plain Gut
versus Nonabsorbable Nylon Sutures

AbstractObjectives: To show that the use of absorbable sutures in
pediatric traumatic lacerations affords good long-term
cosmesis and no increase in complications (infection, dehiscence
rates, and need for surgical scar revision) when
compared with wounds sutured with nonabsorbable sutures.

Please print article, and have on hand at meeting.