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Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... → no signs of CXR ... Inhibitors and ARBs
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Distress Syndrome – ARDS ... , inflammatory lung ... permeability, lung ... with decreased lung ... detected on CT or CXR
In ARDS, we know that the lungs are so diffusely injured that the remaining total area
In ARDS, we know ... that the lungs ... realize that in ARDS ... Consider a patient in ARDS ... diagnosis #management #ards
ARDS/VALI progression over the course of 1 week 
 (a) Day 1 - No pathological findings.
ARDS/VALI progression ... involvement, with “white lung ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #ChestXRay #ARDS
Lung Ultrasound: Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema vs ARDS
Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema:
 • Smooth pleural line
 • AIS >
Lung Ultrasound: ... Pulmonary Edema vs ARDS ... AIS > 3 B-lines/ lung ... pulmonary edema / ARDS ... UAlberta_Sono #APE #ARDS
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... meropenem) #Lung ... Pulmonary #Clinical #CXR
Effect of Lung Recruitment and Titrated Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) vs Low PEEP on Mortality in
Effect of Lung Recruitment ... moderate to severe ARDS ... strategy with lung ... routine use of lung ... Recruitment #PEEP #ARDS
Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Dyspnea (underlying lung ... ) • Abnormal CXR ... History of cancer, lung
Radiographic Features of Pulmonary Diseases
 - Pneumonia
 - Atelectasis
 - Emphysema
 - Pneumothorax
 - Effusion
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Radiology #Patterns #Lung ... #CXR #XRay #ChestCT
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
of Pneumonia on Lung ... POCUS lung exam ... B profile with lung ... Pulmonary edema, ARDS ... Lung POCUS shows