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    Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Suspected E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use Associated Lung Injury — United States, October 2019 Early Release / October 11, 2019 / 68 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6841e3.htm?s_cid=mm6841e3_w
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    Early release MMWR embargoed until 1 PM
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    MMWR embargoed until 1 PM
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    Many cases now will have more probable causes due to flu and other respiratory diseases so need high index of suspicion for infection and vaping
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    Case definition more complicated due to higher frequency of respiratory inflections now
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    Readmissions - don't know if restarted vaping
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    Index of suspicion should include vaping in patients with other infections such as flu
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    Recommend flu testing as part of initial workup
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    May be multiple causative agents
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    Many products and intervening actors
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    May have multiple causes for diseases being seen
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    Vit E in 47% of 225 THC products
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    Reminder on getting flu vaccine
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    Handful (<5) of cases readmitted
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    Vitamin E acetate in 47% of THC products
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    Vitamin E acetate in first 30 samples range is 23-88% Vitamin E acetate
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    First 28 samples THC range 13-77% mean of 41%
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    75 nicotine and 225 THC products tested so far
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    Testing on over 300 so far (from 18 of 23 states that have samples from)
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    Over 725 samples collected by FDA
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    May be more than one cause or source (may be regional differences)
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    Cannot rule out nicotine only since they represent 13% of cases
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    FDA investigation NOT limited to THC linked cases
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    No single product linked to all cases
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    FDA talking broad search
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