Emergency Medicine Reports – October 19, 2003

October 19, 2003

• Appropriate and Outcome-Effective Antibiotic Use in Acute Bacterial Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis (ABECB)

  Cephalosporins, macrolides, and fluoroquinolones currently represent foundation antimicrobials for managing common respiratory infections caused by bacterial and/or atypical pathogens.

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• Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports: Professionalism and Ethics in the ED

  Emergency physicians (EPs), and physicians in general, have faced enormous tests of their core professionalism and ethical values in recent years. The unionization of resident physicians, the financial pressures of a managed care environment, and the thorny role of the pharmaceutical industry have presented new and difficult challenges for medicine.

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