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High Central Neuraxial Block - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Can occur with deliberate or accidental
Symptoms are ... situation permits. ❷ Call ... Consider other causes ... mimic signs and symptoms ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism - Signs and Symptoms
Most Common Presenting SYMPTOMS 
 - Dyspnea at rest or with
Embolism - Signs and Symptoms ... Common Presenting SYMPTOMS ... Orthopnea (28%) - Calf ... Tachypnea (54%) - Calf ... #Diagnosis
Budd Chiari Syndrome
Hepatic vein obstruction. Can be caused by thrombosis or sometimes a tumour. Can lead
Can be caused by ... BuddChiari #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Causes #Signs ... #Symptoms
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Symptoms are non-specific:
 - Headache 90%
 - Nausea/vomiting 50%
 - Vertigo 50%
 - Altered
Monoxide Poisoning Symptoms ... Headache 90% - Nausea ... Subjective weakness 20% Diagnosis ... Outdoors improves symptoms ... - reduces the half-life
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
or iatrogenic causes ... placement. ❶ Call ... tube ❹ Rapid diagnosis ... • Diagnostic ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Drugs Causing Acute Pancreatitis

Class Ia: The medications in which there was a rechallenge and other causes
rechallenge and other causes ... out other common causes ... Class II: Cases ... #Pancreatitis #Causes ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Typical Withdrawal Characteristics of Various Opiates / Time course of opiate withdrawal. 
- Half-life
- Onset of
- Half-life ... of withdrawal symptoms ... #pharmacology #diagnosis
Bell's palsy
There are many different causes of Facial Nerve Palsy. However, the commonest
cause of unilateral facial
many different causes ... the commonest cause ... Neurology #Signs #Symptoms ... #Diagnosis
Pancreatic Cyst Diagnosis on Endoscopic Ultrasound EUS
Features of low cancer risk: No symptoms caused by the
Pancreatic Cyst Diagnosis ... cancer risk: No symptoms ... caused by the cyst ... high cancer risk: Symptoms ... caused by the cyst
Differential Diagnosis of Syncope
First, is it syncope? History is very important for distinguishing syncope from other
Differential Diagnosis ... events, prodromal symptoms ... Common causes of ... their associated symptoms ... #Diagnosis #EM #