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06 / Thoracic Surgery · clerkship

The pneumonia that will not settle

  1. ED
  2. Investigations
  3. Pre-Op
  4. OR
  5. Ward
  6. Debrief

Day 6, still spiking

He has had appropriate antibiotics for six days but continues to spike to 38.8. The left base is stony dull with absent breath sounds. Inflammatory markers are rising rather than falling.

Left lower lobe consolidation with an effusion
James Heilman, MD · CC BY 3.0

The most likely explanation is:

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