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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
diseases - Severe ... Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... - Bacterial ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Management #Treatment
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Chagas Disease ( ... Diagnosis and Management ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
intracellular rod-shaped bacteria ... Response: • Most bacteria ... , bacteremia, and ... TB: • Fever • ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
intracellular rod-shaped bacteria ... Response: • Most bacteria ... , bacteremia, and ... TB: • Fever • ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
"Initial management of FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA. Adapted from the 2011 Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines"-McMaster Textbook
"Initial management ... from the 2011 Infectious ... Diseases Society ... Neutropenia #Febrile #Fever ... #Algorithm #InfectiousDiseases
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Chagas Disease ( ... Diagnosis and Management ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... useful for chronic infection ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Blood Transfusion Reactions

Immune Mediated:
 • Febrile Non-Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction (FNHTR): Most common immune reaction to transfusion.
Infection - Infection ... very rare), or bacterial ... • Bacterial contamination ... , Trypanosoma (Chagas ... Transfusion #diagnosis #management
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
DIAGNOSTICS
Paracentesis: 
 • Calculate absolute PMN count (total WBC x PMN %)
 • Correct
if other signs (fever ... or TMP-SMX • Active ... ↓ rebleeding, infections ... advanced liver disease ... SBP #diagnosis #management
Blood Product Transfusions One Pager Summary
Type and screen - determines blood type and detects in recipient
S/sx: Fever, flank ... very rare), or bacterial ... - Bacterial ... , Trypanosoma (Chagas ... Transfusions #diagnosis #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... , bacterial superinfection ... pericarditis, peritoneal disease ... • Persistently active ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management