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There are infectious, vascular, and inflammatory conditions that can mimic cellulitis sufficiently to prompt admission and initial treatment with intravenous antibiotics.

The patient exhibited signs of sepsis along with progressive left breast erythema, induration, and pain.

Medications for managing delirium symptoms, particularly antipsychotics, are associated with prolongation of the QT interval, which is a risk factor for the development of fatal arrhythmias.

The patient developed gastrointestinal bleeding after being started on intravenous heparin following thrombectomy and angioplasty for acute limb ischemia.

P-CABs provide rapid, potent, predictable acid suppression without the need for timing around meals, but their current role is focused and limited.

The new joint clinical practice guideline provides a framework for deciding when tapering is appropriate and for implementing safe, patient-centered discontinuation strategies.

The authors review the KDIGO guideline updates and provide a simplified treatment algorithm for non-nephrologists, focusing on medication sequencing and monitoring.

Clinicians need to adopt early interventions that can alter the course of chronic kidney disease for patients.