Do you rule out TB in patients with AIDS and lobar pneumonia?
What’s your threshold to get the three AFBs and place the patient in airborne isolation?
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Pulmonology · Geisinger Healthplex State College PA
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Depends:
+Ve Risk Factors:
- Travel/contact Hx,
- recent Quantiferon Conversion,
- changing CXR,
- Night sweats
- Unexplained low-grade temps
Then, yes.
Otherwise, no.
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