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Evaluation of Electrical Injury in the Emergency Department 

Common Injuries by System:

CNS - Seizure, coma, spinal
Injuries by System: CNS ... ED arrival MSK ... posterior shoulder - AC ... especially with AC ... Evaluation #Diagnosis #Management
Oppositional Grasp Weakness in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Dysfunction of the six- Opposition weakness-in carpal tunnel syndrome with
of the median nerve ... & Ulnar nerve ( ... Tunnel #Syndrome #clinical ... #orthopedics #msk ... #CTS
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Refeeding Syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Patients at Risk of Refeeding Syndrome:
 - Little or no nutritional
Pathogenesis and clinical ... - anemia - CNS ... Constipation - MSK ... Syndrome #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Overview

Increased Clotting and Consumption of Clotting Factors

Findings:
 • Bleeding
 • Recent history
Disseminated Intravascular ... protein C and S Pathophysiology ... organ damage Clinical ... Thromboembolism (7%) • CNS ... causes #treatment #management
DEMYELINATING DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

What Are Demyelinating Diseases?
• Conditions that damage myelin, the protective
nervous system (CNS ... Acute Disseminated ... • Clinical Types ... - Symptom management ... diseases #neurology #CNS
Hearing Loss - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Hearing Loss Types:
• Conductive
• Sensorineural
• Mixed
Presbycusis is the most common type
: ○ Cranial nerves ... of the auditory nerve ... affect cranial nerves ... (CN 8) ... Noise trauma ○ MS
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Parotid swelling CNS ... nervous system (CNS ... myelopathy, cranial nerve ... • 8%-27% for CNS ... phenomenon (16%) MSK
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... that results in CNS ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... brain and/or optic nerve ... Myelitis #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
IGG-4 RELATED DISEASE

WHAT?
 • A chronic, immune-mediated fibroinflammatory disease with tumefactive infiltration of IgG4+ plasma cells
dysfunction PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ... specific) COMMON CLINICAL ... Thyroid (Riedel's), CNS ... Essential Criteria: Clinical ... IGG4 #Diagnosis #Management