The Journal of family practice
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Review Case Reports
A case report of disseminated blastomycosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome.
Blastomycosis is a fungal disease endemic to the midwestern and southeastern United States. This is a case report of a 29-year-old woman who presented with weight loss, fever, fatigue, and pneumonia. ⋯ Blastomycosis is endemic to a large portion of the United States. Family physicians should consider fungal infection in the differential diagnosis of an unresolving pneumonia.
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Race has been shown to be a significant predictive factor in a number of treatment decisions and outcomes, including survival following out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The goal of this study was to determine whether race is associated with the rate of survival to discharge following in-hospital CPR. ⋯ Black race is significantly associated with a lower rate of survival to discharge following in-hospital CPR. Further work is needed to explore this association in other settings; to examine the effect of other possible confounding variables, such as tobacco use, socioeconomic status, and marital status; and to further study the determinants of physician decision-making about resuscitation.