AIR STAMP OF APPROVAL AND HONORABLE MENTIONS
Below we have listed our selection of the 4 highest quality blog posts within the past 12 months (as assessed on March 2016) related to dermatologic emergencies, curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. More specifically in this module, we identified 0 AIRs and 4 Honorable Mentions. After reading, please take the quizzes. We recommend programs give 1 hour (just under 20 minutes per article) of III credit for this module.
Article Title | Author | Date | Link | Title |
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 1 or 2 Tablets BID? | Bryan D. Hayes, PharmD, FAACT, Nadia Awad, PharmD, BCPS and Emily Heil, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP | February 16, 2015 | ALiEM: TMP-SMX for SSTI’s | Honorable Mention |
SGEM#110: I Saw the Signs of Angioedema | Eric Schneider, MD | March 7, 2015 | SGEM: Angioedema | Honorable Mention |
The Emergency Medicine Approach to Vasculitides | Brit Long, MD | June 12, 2015 | EMDOCS: Vasculitides | Honorable Mention |
Ultrasound of the Week: # 66 | Ben Smith, MD | January 7, 2016 | UOTW: US for SSTI | Honorable Mention |
Good stuff! As I’m sure the writers are aware, however, two recent publications regarding icatibant and bactrim for soft tissue infections beg for inclusion, and at least in the case of icatibant should dramatically change our thoughts on using this drug.
Agreed Chris. Thanks for the comment. Our FOAM search through the SMI-50 is done once for each module and doesn’t continue to catch resources after the module is published.