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deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship podcast. This month's episode is going to be covering

necrotizing soft tissue infections, or NSTIs, for short. But before we begin, just a quick

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So today's episode is going to be a short one. We're going to start with a general overview

of necrotizing soft tissue infections, followed by their clinical presentation, and then we'll

move on to discuss diagnosis and management.

Necrotizing soft tissue infections are a group of life-threatening deep soft tissue infections that progress rapidly and have an extremely high rate of morbidity and mortality.

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