20 results
Antinuclear Antibody Testing - Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Patterns
Nuclear Patterns:
 • Homogeneous pattern: 
   -
anti-Su/Ago • Golgi ... Giantin/macrogolgin, golgin ... -95/GM130, golgin ... 160, golgin97, golgin
Flexor Tenosynovitis (FTS)

The clinical diagnosis of FTS is made using Kanavel’s Signs:
 - Fusiform swelling.
 -
extension of the digit ... - The digit held
High Pressure Injection Injury 

• External exam may look deceptively innocuous
• Delayed pain as inflammation sets
Distended, swollen digit ... pale, ischemic digit
Reactive Arthritis
 • Inflammation of joints (commonly large joints)
    - Asymmetric Oligoarthritis: Joint
Dactylitis (sausage digit
Blakemore Tube Procedure Instructions

1) Resuscitate & Intubate  - After resuscitating. intubate with head of bed
by inflating in basin
3D-CAM Assessment for Delirium

Feature 1: Acute Change / Fluctuating Course
 • Assessment questions: Self report of
questions incorrect: Digit
Interphalangeal Joint Dislocation
Interphalangeal joint dislocations almost always occur dorsally, look for associated avulsion fractures! Here's a
of the affected digit
Psoriatic Arthritis: Pathogenesis and Clinical findings

In tendons and connective tissues:
 • Enthesitis  - Pain/tenderness over
Inflammation of entire digit
Stuck Ring Removal Method

TECHNIQUE:
1. Gather floss, fishing line, umbilical silk, even IV tubing/TQ.
2. Distally--> wrap circumferential
around the swollen digit
Antinuclear Antibody Testing Cytoplasmic Patterns
Reticular/AMA: 
 • PBC, SSc, PBC/SSc OS, PBC/SjS OS
 • AMA
Speckled:
 •
Anti-GW182, anti-Su/Ago Golgi ... Giantin/macrogolgin, golgin ... -95/GM130, golgin ... 160, golgin97, golgin