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The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast

IBCC Episode 44 - Community Acquired Biliary Sepsis

The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast

Adam Thomas

Foam, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Science, Criticalcare, Medicaleducation

5714 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we will cover all those pesky things that can make your patient sick from the RUQ: namely the biliary tract!

Ascending cholangitis, Cholecystitis and all the important pearly for imaging, antibiotics and source control options.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so welcome back to the Internet Book of Critical Care Podcasting here with Adam Thomas.

0:10.0

We're going to talk about community-acquired billiary sepsis.

0:12.7

You thought you learned something with community onset pneumonia.

0:16.4

What we got for you is a doozy.

0:18.8

Sit back, relax.

0:20.1

Let's talk about all things,

0:22.1

Balearie track infections. So Josh, let's get straight into it because this one is content

0:27.2

heavy. And I just remind everybody, make sure you read the post before you listen to the

0:31.4

podcast because there's a lot of things we're going to summarize today. Yeah, so we

0:35.0

basically try to combine colystitis and ascending colangitis because I think

0:39.3

they're pretty similar and the treatment is relatively similar.

0:42.2

And I think in some ways if you can contrast and compare them, that can help you understand

0:46.3

them in a deeper level.

0:47.3

Yeah, they kind of present on the spectrum, eh?

0:49.3

The acute gall bag with the colesisitis, maybe some right out of prochondri pain fever could be moderately

0:54.9

ill, and then that hardcore bilary sepsis with ascending colongitis.

0:59.3

It's easy.

1:00.0

Josh, we use the same antibiotics.

1:01.8

We're going to image the billiary trees in a similar fashion, and we're going to nuke them

1:06.4

with some antibiotics and treat both at the same time.

1:08.8

Exactly.

1:09.4

That's it.

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