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Hypernatremia Differential Diagnosis Algorithm - Diabetes Insipidus Workup

Step #1 - Consider the history
Step #2 - Assess
Hypernatremia Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm - Diabetes ... Insipidus Workup ... history Step #2 - Assess ... Hypernatremia #Management
Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
Algorithm for Management ... AECOPD) Obtain workup ... for alternate diagnoses ... COPD Assess ... #COPD #AECOPD #Algorithm
Acute Pancreatitis - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Epigastric abdominal pain (90%, characteristically
Pancreatitis - Diagnosis ... and Management ... • Epigastric abdominal ... Imaging findings Workup ... early; late to assess
Diagnostic flow-chart to assess and monitor disease severity in the presence of suspected NAFLD and metabolic
Diagnostic flow-chart ... to assess and monitor ... Guidelines for the management ... Steatohepatitis #Workup ... #Algorithm #Followup
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
Farmer and forestry work ... adjacent to the focus ... Meningitis, epidural abscess ... or intracranial abscesses ... #management #treatment
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Assess functional ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... undergoing AAA or upper abdominal ... medical and surgical management ... stratification #diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Diagnosis ... Pulmonary 3) Abdominal ... Inhalation of spores ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... #Management #Infections