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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 ... especially with AC ... Evaluation #Diagnosis #Management ... #Emergency #Algorithm
DEMYELINATING DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

What Are Demyelinating Diseases?
• Conditions that damage myelin, the protective
DEMYELINATING DISEASES ... nervous system (CNS ... - Symptom management ... autoimmune/infectious causes ... diseases #neurology #CNS
Trendelenburg Gait: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Skeletal Pathology of the Hip
 • Arthritis
 • Congenital hip dysplasia
in the Spinal canal ... Superior gluteal nerve ... Trendelenburg #Gait #pathophysiology ... #causes #symptoms ... signs #diagnosis #msk
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Incidence: 1 to 2 cases ... complete paralysis of all ... than one after symptom ... the underlying pathophysiology ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Paget’s Disease: Complications
Abnormal Osteoclasts cause excessive bone turnover -> Incr bone resorption, Incr (abnormal) bone formation

MSK
Abnormal Osteoclasts cause ... bone formation MSK ... the vertebral canal ... PagetsDisease #pathophysiology ... diagnosis #signs #symptoms
Hearing Loss - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Hearing Loss Types:
• Conductive
• Sensorineural
• Mixed
Presbycusis is the most common type
: ○ Cranial nerves ... of the auditory nerve ... (CN 8) ... cause unknown) ... Noise trauma ○ MS
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... that results in CNS ... Bilateral signs and/or symptoms ... brain and/or optic nerve ... Etiologies: • Demyelination
Pathogenesis of Select Causes of Constipation in Adults and in Elderly

 • Mechanical (ex. Bowel Obstruction,
Pathogenesis of Select Causes ... Sclerosis) -> Demyelination ... of CNS neurons ... Dysfunction of autonomic nerves ... #constipation #pathophysiology
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 ... ): demyelinating ... • 8%-27% for CNS ... phenomenon (16%) MSK