Empiric Table of Contents

I. Fever

• Empiricism-Philosophy and Practice
• Fever
• Fever and Abdominal Pain
• Fever and Arthritis
• Fever and Back Pain
• Fever in the Burn Patient
• Fever in the Cancer Patient
• Fever and Chest Pain
• Fever in the Geriatric Patient
• Fever in Hemodialysis
• Fever and HIV
• Fever without Localizing Signs and Symptoms
• Fever in the Neutropenic Host
• Fever in Organ Transplant Recipients
• Fever in the Postoperative Patient
• Fever in Pregnancy
• Fever and Rash
• Fever, Rash and Arthritis
• Fever in the Returned Traveler
• Fever in a Splenectomized Patient

II. Symptoms and Syndromes

• Antibiotic Therapy for Positive Blood Cultures
• Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Allergy
• Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
• Cellulitis
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Cough
• Diarrhea
• Diabetic Foot Infections
• Endocarditis
• Genital Ulcer Disease
• Granulomatous Diseases
• Headache
• Hemoptysis
• Immunizations
• Infections Associated with Anti Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)
• Medications
• Lemierre Syndrome
• Leukocytosis and Leukopenia
• Lymphadenopathy
• Meningitis
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
• Orofacial Infections
• Osteomyelitis
• Parotitis
• Pharyngitis
• Pleural Effusions
• Pneumonia
  1. Pneumonia - Hospital-Acquired
  2. Pneumonia - Community-Acquired
• Prostatitis
• Prosthetic Joint Infections
• Recurrent Infections
• Red Eyes
• Sepsis
  1. Sepsis - D Sweeney and H Masur
  2. Sepsis in the Antibiotic Conditioned Patient - S Deresinski
  3. Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
• Septic Arthritis
• Sinusitis
  1. Sinusitis-Acute
  2. Sinusitis-Chronic
• Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
  1. Cellulitis
  2. Diabetic Foot Infections
  3. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
• Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
• Thrombocytopenia
• Thrombocytosis
• Urethritis
• Urinary Tract Infections
  1. UTI-Uncomplicated Adult
  2. UTI-Children
  3. UTI-Complicated
  4. UTI-Catheter Associated
• Vaccines

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