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Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
Exacerbation of COPD ... workup for alternate ... newly diagnosed COPD ... MatthewHoMD #COPD ... #AECOPD #Algorithm
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia (COP ... Anti-dsDNA, ANCA COP ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... Organizing #Pneumonia #COP ... #ILD #diagnosis
Interventional bronchoscopic and surgical treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Overview of various therapies used
bronchoscopic and surgical treatments ... chronic obstructive pulmonary ... disease (COPD). ... patients with COPD ... VolumeReduction #Bullectomy #Algorithm
Medical Treatment Algorithm for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Initial medical treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Algorithm for Chronic ... disease (COPD) ... squared; CAT, COPD ... #COPD #Treatment ... #Algorithm #Management
Pharmacologic treatment algorithms by Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease grade. Highlighted boxes and arrows
Pharmacologic treatment ... algorithms by Global ... Chronic Obstructive Lung ... #Management #Pulmonary ... #COPD #GOLD2017
Capnography
Measurement of exhaled carbon dioxide can be used to confirm ETT placement, for safer procedural sedation,
monitor cardiac & pulmonary ... Downsloping phase III: copd ... airway obstruction, copd ... intubation, single lung ... ETCO2: arrythmia, pe
Causes of Hypoxemia- Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Ventilation/perfusion Mismatch
 • Airway Disease (Asthma, COPD)
 • Vascular (PE*)
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Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Disease (Asthma, COPD ... • Vascular (PE ... • Interstitial lung ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Dyspnea:
 • Myocardium:
	- Heart failure
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
 • Electrical:
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- Asthma - COPD ... • Parenchyma: ILD ... Vasculature: - PE ... - Pulmonary HTN ... Transverse myelitis • Hematology
Pulmonary Pathology and Associated Lung Ultrasound Findings
Pneumothorax:
 - No lung sliding/barcode sign
 - Lung point (hard
sliding COPD or ... Embolism (PE): ... massive/submassive PE ... ) POCUS 101 @ ... #POCUS #ultrasound
LABA/ICS Combination Inhalers
Long-Acting Beta2 Agonists (LABA) + Inhaled Corticosteroid (ICS) - Commonly used in Asthma 
Advair
powder into their lungs ... of a patients COPD ... (see one of my old ... posts for the COPD ... treatment algorithm