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Diffuse consolidation
The most common cause of diffuse consolidation is pulmonary edema due to heart failure.
This is
The most common cause ... cardiogenic edema, to differentiate ... from the various causes ... patients, who have an acute ... chronic heart disease
Diffuse Acute Abdominal Pain (<72 hours) - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Look for surgical abdomen
Upper quadrant: R/O cardiac,
Diffuse Acute Abdominal ... (<72 hours) - Differential ... : R/O cardiac, pulmonary ... musculoskeletal causes ... genitourinary causes
Acute Hypoxemia - Differential Diagnosis
 • Hyperacute: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Acute Hypoxemia ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Physiologic: ARDS, Diffuse ... Shock • Airway Disease ... #Diagnosis #causes
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
ILD) Exposure-Related ... ILD caused by inhalation ... pneumonia (DIP), Acute ... ILD #diagnosis #differential ... #pulmonary #causes
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
Heart Failure - Differential ... Disease • ... Diffuse Lung Disease ... • Acute Respiratory ... HeartFailure #Cardiology #Differential
Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema - Differential Diagnosis Framework

NCPE Pathophysiology:
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema occurs because of excessive pulmonary capillary
Edema - Differential ... Causes include: ... cardiac disease ... • Transfusion-related ... #edema #NCPE #differential
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
Bilateral B-Lines in case ... Differential Bilat ... /lung sliding: Pulmonary ... interstitial lung disease ... , interstitial diffuse
Erythemas Summarized
Erythema ab igne
 • A dermatosis that results from repeated exposure to heat (fires, heating
fires, heating pads ... to be a form of delayed-type ... early localized disease ... children with acute ... comparison #table #differential
Soil Related Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Mechanism Of Infection:
 • Wound
 • GI: Ingestion, MUD, Contaminated
- Differential ... and paralysis, acute ... endemic fungi cause ... disease • Aspergillus ... Soil #Infections #differential
Causes of Hyperkalemia
l. Pseudohyperkalemia
  A Cellular efflux; thrombocytosis, erythrocytosis, leukocytosis, in vitro hemolysis
  B.
Causes of Hyperkalemia ... Digoxin and related ... uropathy, post-acute ... Acute oliguric kidney ... #Hyperkalemia #Differential