Latest Updates

Introduction to the Patient with Rheumatic Disease

    • ACR/SAA/SRTN 2015 Recommendations for the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis.
    • American College of Rheumatology 2012 Recommendations for the Use of Nonpharmacologic and Pharmacologic Therapies in Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee

Viral Hepatitis A

Brittany L Kmush, PhD, Kenrad E Nelson, MD
    • Several safe and effective vaccines exist to prevent hepatitis A infections.
    • Significant morbidity continues to occur in the United States among international travelers, injection drug users, and persons with underlying liver disease.
    • In developing countries, the epidemiologic transition has increased the prevalence of clinically severe hepatitis A infections.

Urticaria and Angioedema

Justin R Chen, MD, David A. Khan, MD
    • Latest BSACI guideline for the management of chronic urticaria and angioedema
    • Latest ACAAISAEM consensus parameter for the evaluation and management of angioedema in the emergency department
    • Latest EAACI, GAAEN, EDF, and WAO guideline for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria

Urticaria and Angioedema

Justin R Chen, MD, David A. Khan, MD
    • Latest BSACI guideline for the management of chronic urticaria and angioedema
    • Latest ACAAISAEM consensus parameter for the evaluation and management of angioedema in the emergency department
    • Latest EAACI, GAAEN, EDF, and WAO guideline for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria

Benjamin Davis, MD, John I Hogan, MD
    • Evidence for the utility of serologic and molecular assays in the evaluation of acute pneumonia
    • Enhanced understanding of the pathogenesis of pneumonia
    • Empiric therapy in the context of CAP, HCAP, and HAP/VAP

Benjamin Davis, MD, John I Hogan, MD
    • Evidence for the utility of serologic and molecular assays in the evaluation of acute pneumonia
    • Enhanced understanding of the pathogenesis of pneumonia
    • Empiric therapy in the context of CAP, HCAP, and HAP/VAP

Urticaria and Angioedema

Justin R Chen, MD, David A. Khan, MD
    • Latest BSACI guideline for the management of chronic urticaria and angioedema
    • Latest ACAAISAEM consensus parameter for the evaluation and management of angioedema in the emergency department
    • Latest EAACI, GAAEN, EDF, and WAO guideline for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria

Alcohol and Drug Withdrawal Syndromes and Their Clinical Management

Alexander Thompson, MD, MBA, MPH, Andrea Weber, MD, MME
    • Many published protocols for safely managing severe alcohol withdrawal (specifically delirium tremens) in the intensive care setting
    • Increased outpatient treatment options for opioid withdrawal
    • Increased focus on cannabis withdrawal syndrome (now included in the DSM-5), which will increase withdrawal and abstinence treatment research
    • Updated with 2020 ASAM Practice Guidelines: Opioid Use Disorder
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