Best Practices in Management of Fungal Pneumonias: Primary Care and Emergency Medicine Perspectives

Best Practices in Management of Fungal Pneumonias:
Primary Care and Emergency Medicine Perspectives

INTRODUCTION

Fungal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), as caused by the dimorphic fungi Blastomyces, Histoplasma, and Coccidioides spp., is frequently underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Healthcare providers in front-line primary care, urgent care, and emergency medicine settings are in key positions to diagnose fungal CAP, thus reducing diagnostic delays and improving outcomes.

In this course, we have captured best practices from primary and emergency medicine providers in the management of fungal CAP, with a focus on the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clinical testing algorithms for blastomycosis, histoplasmosis, and coccidioidomycosis.

BEST PRACTICES BY DISEASE STATE

Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever)

Blastomycosis

Histoplasmosis

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FACULTY

Clinical Reviewers

Nate Bahr, MD, FIDSA

Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Timothy Mott, MD, FAAFP

Associate Professor
Family Medicine
Uniformed Services University
Program Director
Family Medicine Residency Program
Baldwin Health
Foley, Alabama

CDC Reviewers

Meghan Lyman, MD

Medical Officer
Mycotic Diseases Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dallas J Smith, PharmD

Epidemiologist
Mycotic Diseases Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mitsuru Toda, PhD

Epidemiologist
Mycotic Diseases Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Best-Practices Faculty

James Montana, MD

Essentia Health – Ely Clinic
Ely, Minnesota

Michael C Tushla, MD

Family Physician
Dignity Health
Santa Paula, California

Jessica Pelletier, DO, MHPE, FAAEM

Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Missouri Healthcare
Columbia, Missouri

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