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Central line myth #2: location, location, location 

By far the best data we have to guide
Central line myth ... #2: location, location ... have to guide management ... #Lines #Rates # ... #Selection
Central Venous Catheter site selection - Clinical Decision Aid
IJ vs Subclavian vs Supraclavicular vs Femoral by
site selection ... @broomedocs #Management ... Venous #Catheters #CVC ... #Lines #Rates # ... Complications #Locations
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis ... 5th decades of life ... sedimentation rate ... - First, a non-selective ... #Management #treatment
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
Mortality due to CVD ... malignancy Pathophysiology ... GHRH release, central ... : • 1st line - ... #Treatment #Pathophysiology
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
: • Calcium 2- ... Ca-gluconate or 1g CaCl- (central ... 10U reg IV + 1-2 ... #Management #Treatment ... #potassium #nephrology
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
and Management ... Eating disorders • Selective ... vasculitis Treatment ... vitamin C for 2 ... #VitaminC #AscorbicAcid
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis ... and Management ... edema at the bite site ... Trypanosomiasis #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... disturbance, External lines ... epilepticus Treatment ... #management #neurology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Rhinocerebral 2) ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... angioinvasion) Site ... shock • Mortality rate ... #Management #Infections