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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
2.
help you use the Clinical ... automatically increase the score ... Dementia doesn't ... into changes in function ... #Tips #Geriatrics
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is commonly used as a screening tool to detect dementia. However,
tool to detect dementia ... and executive functions ... #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... #Examination #Score ... #Assessment
SLU Mental Status Examination Tool
What does the SLU Mental Status Exam Test Do?
Q1-Q3: Attention, immediate recall,
and executive function ... extrapolation #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... #Dementia #SLUMS ... #Examination #Assessment ... #Score
Lewy Body Dementia: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Lewy Body Dementia is a sub-category of major or mild
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Clinical manifestations ... and visuospatial function ... Core features: ... pathophysiology #geriatrics
To be eligible for hospice beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease must have a FAST Scale of greater
Sub-stage 7a: Ability ... #FAST #Stage #Score ... #Alzheimers #Dementia ... #Functional #Assessment ... Hospice #Diagnosis #Geriatrics
Major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD): Diagnosis and workup 

1) Clinical diagnosis Cognitive impairment + loss of autonomy
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workup 1) Clinical ... neuropsychological assessment ... impaired executive functions ... Frontotemporal dementia ... Workup #Diagnosis #Geriatrics
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
if they have no clinical ... , decreased LV function ... effusion, or z scores ... #Diagnosis #Peds ... #Pediatrics #Kawasaki
Algorithm for Management of Head Injuries in Children
Primary survey:
 • Airway and cervical spine
 • Breathing
of vomiting • Clinical ... • Glasgow Coma Score ... CSF leak from nose ... Injury #trama #pediatrics ... #peds
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in the Neonate

WHY CPAP? 
• Maintain airway patency 
• Helps avoid alveoli
surfactant • Aids Functional ... oxygenation • Helps to Stabilise ... Neonate #Management #ABCs ... #ABCDE #Peds #Pediatrics