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Hospitalize all patients for inhalational anthrax, GI anthrax, anthrax meningitis, and severe cutaneous anthrax.  |
- Hospitalize patients with:
- Confirmed inhalational anthrax, GI anthrax, or anthrax meningitis
- Severe cutaneous disease, including those with systemic illness (fevers, chills) and those with lesions on the face and neck
- High-risk exposure during an anthrax bioterrorist attack who present with flu-like illness with fever, headache, and muscle ache, or signs of disease on laboratory or radiologic tests (i.e., widened mediastinum)
- Use standard precautions for patients infected with anthrax without respiratory isolation.
- Discharge patients when they are stable and can take oral antibiotics.
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| Barbara Robinson-Dunn, PhD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Nicholas John Vietri, MD, MS, editorial consultant, has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Niklas Mackler, MD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Sandro Cinti, MD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations.
Steven E. Weinberger, MD, FACP, Acting Editor, PIER, has stock holdings in Glaxosmithkline and Abbott. |
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