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Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea ... Ova and parasite ... HIV infection or ... fever, abdominal ... #management #algorithm
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
Clinical • Fever ... Abdominal pain • Diarrhea ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... Management ... • Supportive (infection
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea ... Causes of acute diarrhea ... Irritable bowel syndrome ... Parasitic infections ... #management #algorithm
Fever in Returning Traveler - ABCDE Mnemonic
A - Adventure - Where did the patient travel? 
B
Fever in Returning ... B - Body for syndrome ... Gastrointestinal (Diarrheal ... Non-diarrheal), ... Ill Contacts Infectious
Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS)
Clinical features
all: fever > 101.3 F
most: oxygen
Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome ... with SARS-CoV-2 infection ... features all: fever ... abdominal pain, diarrhea ... #Inflammatory #Syndrome
Clinical Presentations Suggestive of Infectious Diarrhea Etiologies
 • Persistent or chronic diarrhea - Cryptosporidium spp, Giardia
Suggestive of Infectious ... short-incubation emetic syndrome ... incubation emetic syndrome ... irritable bowel syndrome ... #Infectious
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
Overwhelming clinical syndrome ... can mimic common infections ... following: • Fever ... Treatment: • Infection ... Lymphohistiocytosis #diagnosis #management
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Risk factors: Previous acute enteric infection, Female
Diagnosis and Management ... acute enteric infection ... gastrointestinal infection ... cognitions, Abuse Diarrhea ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis #Management
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
common route of infection ... Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... • Prodrome: fever ... , weakness +/- diarrhea ... Hantavirus #diagnosis #management
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
lymphohistiocytosis (HLH ... - Nonremitting fever ... SLE], AOSD) • Infection ... • HLH Labs: ... #Diagnosis #Management