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Mixing Study
 • Clotting tests can be abnormal due to either a clotting factor deficiency, or
Clotting tests can be abnormal ... an inhibitor of normal ... to have 50% of normal ... the test to be normal ... diagnosis #hematology #pathophysiology
Causes of Polycythemia (Erythrocytosis) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Relative - Normal RBC Mass / Decreased Plasma Volume
Algorithm Relative - Normal ... Positive - Low/Normal ... Saturation 90%, Abnormal ... carboxyhemoglobin, Abnormal ... Heart Disease Abnormal
Asthma vs COPD Presentation and Diagnosis
Asthma:
 • Epidemiology: Age usually < 45, History (personal or family)
Exam: Usually normal ... Findings: Variably abnormal ... Spirometry often normal ... or near normal ... : Persistently abnormal
Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema - Differential Diagnosis Framework

NCPE Pathophysiology:
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema occurs because of excessive pulmonary capillary
Framework NCPE Pathophysiology ... cardiac disease • Normal ... • Heart size: Normal ... ECHO: • Normal ... chamber size • Normal
Pathogenesis of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders: A maladaptive emotional state causing fear,
worry, and excessive stress, characterized by:
foreboding or apprehension ... Imbalance and/or abnormal ... Anxiety #Disorders #Pathophysiology
Ground Glass Opacities on Lung CT - Pathophysiology
Ground glass opacity lung is denser (whiter) than normal
Opacities on Lung CT - Pathophysiology ... (whiter) than normal ... something that normally ... Opacities #Lung #pulmonary ... #ChestCT #Pathophysiology
Normal Hemodynamic Cardiac Parameters

Central Venous Pressure 

Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure 

Cardiac Index 

Stroke Index 

Systemic Vascular
Normal Hemodynamic ... Venous Pressure Pulmonary ... Resistance Index Pulmonary ... Parameters #Pressures #Normal
Bandemia Overview

Normal: < 1%
Clinically significant: > 10%

Band neutrophils are slightly less mature than segmented neutrophils and
Bandemia Overview Normal ... • Abnormal temperature ... bacteremia • Abnormal ... shock, 33% had normal ... CBC #hematology #pathophysiology
Patterns of pulmonary dysfunction revealed by flow-volume loops. For comparison, a normal loop is shown with
Patterns of pulmonary ... comparison, a normal ... Patterns #Comparison #Normal ... #pulmonary
Normal horizontal repetitive artifacts (A Lines) 

 - Dustin Morrow MD @SonoSerious

#ALines #Artifact #Pulmonary #Lung #Ultrasound
Normal horizontal ... ALines #Artifact #Pulmonary ... POCUS #Clinical #Normal