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How to Determine a Contaminant vs True Infection 

What is the organism? Most 
common contaminants:
to Determine a Contaminant ... Most common contaminants ... jeikieum) (>88%) • Bacillus ... Contamination #Diagnosis ... #BCx #Laboratory
Guide to Interpretation of Positive Blood Cultures

I arrange the potential Gram stain results that one can
shaped GPR, these clues ... suggest Bacillus ... , usually a contaminant ... Interpretation #Laboratory ... #Microbiology #Diagnosis
Principal Causes of Generalized Edema - History, Physical Examination, and Laboratory Findings 

Cardiac, Hepatic, Renal (ARF),
Principal Causes ... Examination, and Laboratory ... Edema #Anasarca #Diagnosis ... #Differential #Table
Causes of Acute Infectious Diarrhea
Noninflammatory Diarrhea
Viral - Noroviruses, astrovirus, adenovirus, Rotavirus, sapovirus
Protozoal - Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium,
Causes of Acute ... Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus ... #Diarrhea #Causes ... #differential #diagnosis ... #table
Rapid, increasing signs of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) is an important key feature of NMS. EPS, associated
about 95% of NMS cases ... A laboratory profile ... Laboratory findings ... #Diagnosis #Serotonin ... NeurolepticMalignant #Comparison #Table
Drug Induced Lupus vs SLE
Drug Induced Lupus (DIL):
 • Epidemiology: -10% of all lupus cases, drug-dependent,
calcium-b) • Laboratory ... Discontinuation of causal ... versus DIL • Laboratory ... sle #comparison #table ... #rheumatology #diagnosis
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
will correctly diagnose ... a case, or the ... that any given case ... it has a narrow focus ... #Calculation #Table
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... - assess other laboratory ... or diagnostic tests ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
Huge cardiac masses ... ...initially diagnosed ... clinically completely stable ... clinical #cardiology #pocus
Greater Saphenous Vein Thrombosis on POCUS
Pt-leg pain/redness/swelling. Proximal TRV image. 
Diagnosis: Greater Saphenous Vein Thrombosis without
Thrombosis on POCUS ... Diagnosis: Greater ... hemodynamically stable ... into the CFV and cause ... Vein #Thrombosis #POCUS