Guidelines

At any time over the course of the next few weeks we will be encountering some of the disease states listed below. Although we may not have a devoted "topic discussion" on these topics, it would be awesome if you knew the basics of the guidelines used to treat them. I have included links to some important guidelines, this is not all inclusive for what we will see.

Cardiology (Heart Failure, ACS, Stroke, Hypertension, Lipids):

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2013/06/03/CIR.0b013e31829e8776 (Heart Failure)

Respiratory (COPD and Asthma):



ID (CAP, HAP, Cdiff, Meningitis, Endocarditis, SSTI, CRBSI, HIV, Candida, STDs, Vancomycin Dosing)

Hepatic (Alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, HBV, HCV):