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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 ( ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... detectable by blood ... 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
Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
Blood Culture-Negative ... after 3 separate blood ... See charts - ... Diseases Fellows ... differential #workup #infectiousdiseases
Persistent UC Symptoms Despite 5-ASA Therapies
 • Assess for Drug Adherence
 • Disease Activity Assessment (bloody
Drug Adherence • Disease ... (bloody diarrhea ... UC > non-bloody ... Colonoscopy • Rule-Out Infection ... Refractory #Treatment #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
Bacteremia Quick Reference - Treatment Duration

Gram Negative Bacteremia:
 • Avoid: Aminoglycosides and tigecycline
 • Catheters should
- Follow-up blood ... - No fever ... of metastatic infection ... #Treatment #Management ... #Duration #infectiousdiseases
Suspected catheter-related bloodstream infection - Management Algorithm
 • Temperature 37.8 C   • Rigors
- Management Algorithm ... purulence Obtain blood ... • Persistent fever ... and/or bacteremia ... #Management #Algorithm
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
Phagocytosis of blood ... • Clinical: fever ... CMV, HHV8,...), Bacteria ... • Autoimmune diseases ... Lymphohistiocytosis #diagnosis #management
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Parasitic infections ... Systemic disease ... leukocytes and occult blood ... insufficiency, Bacterial ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management