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Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... Investigations: full blood ... osmolarity If cause ... signs • Glomerulonephritis ... #causes
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
Traumatic Brain Injury ... Cortical Blindness, Psychiatric ... Confabulation #differential ... #diagnosis #causes ... #neurology
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
Hematuria - Differential ... urine • 1ml blood ... Immune mediated injury ... hematuria • Signs ... #renal #urine #blood
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Differential Diagnosis ... when evaluation should ... signs of end-organ ... or acute kidney injury ... #Differential #
Peri-operative Hyperthermia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
If prolonged or ≥ 39 C this is a
hyperthermia crisis (late sign ... Phaeochromocytoma Neurologic ... • Intracranial blood ... Traumatic brain injury ... #Hyperthermia #Differential
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
- Differential ... plateletcount), peripheral blood ... K), H. pylori test ... (CVID, WAS), (neurologic ... /psychiatric changes
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
abnormal liver blood ... clinical symptoms/signs ... pattern of liver blood ... presence of metabolic syndrome ... Liver #Enzymes #Differential
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... Prerenal, Renal, and ... • Sepsis • Blood ... Postrenal #Failure #Differential ... #Nephrology
Pruritus - Generalized Differential Diagnosis Algorithm - Systemic and Primary Causes
== Primary Skin Lesions ==
Macules /
Primary Causes ... / Systemic == Blood ... Liver Function Tests ... Myelodisplastic syndrome ... Psychiatric Disease
Hypokalemia Evaluation Algorithm

Before evaluating hypokalemia, life threatening complications such as arrhythmias and paralysis should be looked
paralysis should ... If present, it should ... losses: • High Blood ... diagnosis #Algorithm #differential ... #potassium #nephrology