2020 is finally over. Although the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't ended yet, 2021 has brought some light to the end of the dark tunnel we've all been traveling through. While we might like to completely forget about the past year, it did bring us some excellent emergency medicine literature. The research on SARS-CoV-2 definitely occupied the bulk of our attention, but many other publications unrelated to the virus are worthy of mention as well.
In this annual recap of my favorite articles of the past year, I will focus your attention on three simple but practice-changing articles from 2020, which you may have missed while you were busy treating patients with COVID. Note that these serve as brief summaries only, and I encourage interested readers to peruse the actual articles for further details.
Update to CDC Treatment Guidelines for Gonococcal Infection, 2020
It seems only fitting that we begin this year's summary with a discussion of another infection, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The authors of this report indicate that gonococcal infections have increased by 63% since 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have continued to closely monitor prevalence and resistance patterns for N gonorrhoeaeand they have updated their treatment recommendations.
