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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 # ... #Sites #Infections
Central line myth #2: location, location, location 

By far the best data we have to guide
Central line myth ... #2: location, location ... #Lines #Rates # ... #Sites #Infections ... #Selection
COVID-19 - A Seattle Intensivist's One-Page Cheat-Sheet on COVID-19 v2.7 Updated March 26 2020

(v2.7) incorporating newer
section (several ... Wuhan Virus") • Infection ... Virus: SARS-CoV-2, ... 30-40% • Ro = 2- ... #Management #Summary
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
Mortality due to CVD ... GHRH release, central ... : • 1st line - ... or refractory cases ... #Treatment #Pathophysiology
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
malignant, pediatric cases ... 5th decades of life ... sedimentation rate ... - First, a non-selective ... #Management #treatment
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis ... and Management ... disease caused ... edema at the bite site ... #Management #Treatment
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... : • Infection, ... disturbance, External lines ... • Treatment of ... #management #neurology
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
only if no clear cause ... : • Calcium 2- ... Ca-gluconate or 1g CaCl- (central ... 10U reg IV + 1-2 ... #Management #Treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess Pathophysiology ... Inoculum 2. ... #differential #causes ... #management #treatment
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
cases/100,000 per ... Guillain-Barre Pathophysiology ... response preceding infection ... #management #treatment ... #neurology