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Clinical viva — your approach to the immunocompromised ICU patient
A clinical viva on the immunocompromised approach — the broadened differential, the early aggressive antibiotic, the source search, the antifungal, and the TLS prevention.
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A clinical viva on the immunocompromised approach — the broadened differential, the early aggressive antibiotic, the source search, the antifungal, and the TLS prevention.
The question
"Take me through your approach to the immunocompromised patient who presents with the fever and the respiratory failure."[1]
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- [1]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.
- [2]Marino PL The ICU Book. 4th edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.