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What is your preferred laboratory test to assess treatment response or infection resolution in patients with bacterial pneumonia?

For example, do you find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?

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When do you recommend limited or targeted respiratory pathogen testing versus a full respiratory pathogen panel in a patient presenting with URI symptoms?

In other words, are there benefits to identifying URI pathogens that do not necessarily have targeted therapies (e.g., rhinovirus, non-COVID-19 Corona...

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What do you think about using conventional thoracic imaging methods (e.g., X-ray, CT, etc.) to determine if a pleural effusion is of adequate size to consider thoracentesis?

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How do you decide whether to use lung POCUS versus CT as the next step when a chest X-ray is equivocal for pneumonia?

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Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Workup of Pleural Effusion or Pleural Disease.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02

Differentiation of pleural effusions from parenchymal opacities: accuracy of bedside chest radiography.

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Aug 17

Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

Thorax, 2009 Oct

BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009.

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