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Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Bronchiectasis - ... Chronic inflammation causes ... Fevers and/or chills ... Most Common Causes ... mycobacteria Treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
• Most common cause ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... 38 degrees • Chills ... hemorrhage • Treatment ... #differential #causes
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
Hematologic disease caused ... Lutzomyia verrucarum Clinical ... fever, malaise, chills ... toxo reactivation Clinical ... TREATMENT: ​• Acute
Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Score (COWS)

Resting Pulse Rate: Record beats per minute after patient is sitting or
Clinical Opioid ... 1 - subjective chills ... last ½ hour • 2 - nausea ... Hospital Opioid Use Treatment ... Score #Diagnosis #Addiction
Pulmonary Nodule
Evaluation is guided by nodule size & assessment of probability of malignancy. In addition is
In addition is based ... are called lung masses ... lung malignancy, clinical ... The treatment of
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
six months of treatment ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... Fever, chills, lack ... unintentional weight loss, nausea
On the left a patient with GGO as dominant pattern.
In addition there is traction bronchiectasis indicating
In addition there ... is traction bronchiectasis ... This case is one ... patients respond to treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology
Proptotic Eye found to have Abscess on POCUS (Endophthalmitis)

- Dr. J. Christian Fox https://twitter.com/jchristianfox

-- Editor Addition
jchristianfox -- Editor Addition ... patient in this case ... appropriate w/u and treatment ... Proptotic #Eye #POCUS #Clinical
Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS)

Part B: Based on patient interview: 

1. Have you ever
rehabilitation treatment ... or out-patient treatment ... Part C: Based on clinical ... sweating, agitation, nausea ... Score #Diagnosis #Addiction
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
5–21 days • Clinical ... Fever (>90%), chills ... - Case-fatality ... laboratories • Treatment ... specific proven treatment