This week we dive into acute rhinosinusitis focusing on diagnosis and discussing the absence of utility for antibiotics in most patients.
This week we dive into acute rhinosinusitis focusing on diagnosis and discussing the absence of utility for antibiotics in most patients.
Take Home Points
Show Notes
Melio FR, Berge LR. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections, in Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al (eds): Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, ed 8. St. Louis, Mosby, Inc., 2010, (Ch) 75: p 965-79.
The NNT: Antibiotics for Clinically Diagnosed Acute Sinusitis in Adults
The NNT: Antibiotics for Radiologically-Diagnosed Acute Maxillary Sinusitis
Lemiengre MB et al. Antibiotics for clinically diagnosed acute rhinosinusitis in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012. PMID: 23076918
Ahovuo-Saloranta A et al. Antibiotics for acute maxillary sinusitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008. PMID: 18425861