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Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... patient’s complete medical ... perfusion - Cardiac ... failure - Low cardiac
Air gap sign: loss of cardiac image during systole in Pneumopericardium
Interesting observation –loss of cardiac window
Air gap sign: loss ... of cardiac image ... Pneumopericardium #clinical ... echocardiogram #a4c ... #plax #pocus #airgap
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... left heart 3-6 cardiac ... Arterial blood gas (ABC ... older) on room air ... no established medical
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
runner presents to clinic ... Kussmaul's sign, marked pedal ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... #pocus #clinical
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... ulceration • Ocular ... Medium and large ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
alteration in mental ... inform immediate clinical ... problem. ❸ Call for cardiac ... may help reduce acidosis ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... Medical history ... Change in clinical ... postoperative cardiac ... stratification #diagnosis
Aneurysmal bone cyst on Ocular POCUS
A 25y/o M with persistent right eye lacrimation and mild swelling
Aneurysmal bone cyst on Ocular ... POCUS A 25y/o ... mild swelling medially ... KPSono @KpSono #ABC ... #POCUS #clinical
Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS
Hypotension in trauma is not always due to hypovolemia. This was a great
Cardiac Tamponade ... on POCUS Hypotension ... in diagnosing cardiac ... #clinical #ultrasound ... trauma #cardiology #s4c
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram (A4C)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic limb. PMHx
Echocardiogram (A4C ... What are the next POCUS ... tests are not POCUS ... : serial blood cultures ... #clinical #cardiology