Steroids for Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia

FOAMcast - Emergency Medicine Core Content by Lauren Westafer

Mar 27, 202311:33Religion & Spirituality

Recommendations for the use of steroids in community-acquired pneumonia have been mixed. This episode reviews a large multicenter randomized trial in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dequin et al on hydrocortisone...

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