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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Jan 3;68(5152):1189-1194.
doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm685152e2.

Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Professionals Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Suspected E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury and for Reducing the Risk for Rehospitalization and Death Following Hospital Discharge - United States, December 2019

Mary E Evans, Evelyn Twentyman, Eleanor S Click, Alyson B Goodman, David N Weissman, Emily Kiernan, Susan Adkins Hocevar, Christina A Mikosz, Melissa Danielson, Kayla N Anderson, Sascha Ellington, Matthew J Lozier, Lori A Pollack, Dale A Rose, Vikram Krishnasamy, Christopher M Jones, Peter Briss, Brian A King, Jennifer L Wiltz; Lung Injury Response Clinical Task Force; Lung Injury Response Clinical Working Group
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Practice Guideline

Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Professionals Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Suspected E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury and for Reducing the Risk for Rehospitalization and Death Following Hospital Discharge - United States, December 2019

Mary E Evans et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .
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Conflict of interest statement

All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. No conflicts of interest were disclosed. All members of the Lung Injury Response Clinical Working Group have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Carolyn S. Calfee reports a grant from the FDA/NIH (Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science [TCORS]) for a project entitled Impact of Different E-cigarette Characteristics on Acute Lung Injury; a grant from GlaxoSmithKline for an observational study on sepsis and ARDS biomarkers; a grant and personal fees from Bayer for an observational study on pulmonary hypertension in ARDS and for medical consultation; and personal fees from Roche/Genentech for consultation on potential therapies for ARDS, and personal fees from Prometic, CSL Behring, and Quark for serving on medical advisory boards for ARDS. No other potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.

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Updated algorithm for management of patients* with suspected e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI), December 2019 * Influenza vaccination recommendations: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/rr/rr6803a1.htm?s_cid=rr6803a1_w.
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