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Gonococcal Infection Treatment Update
FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast
English - January 03, 2021 15:02 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Education Courses covid covidcast emergency foam foamed medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry
In this quick literature update we review the new recommendations from the CDC for the treatment of gonococcal infections which include:
Higher dose ceftriaxone (500 mg IM) or 1 gm IM if ≥150 kg patient No routine azithromycin Preference for doxycycline for co-treatment of presumed chlamydial infectionShow notes and references: FOAMcast.org
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Lauren Westafer and Jeremy Faust