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Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based tests:
 • FIT: 79% sensitivity, 94% specificity for CRC
Cancer Screening Tests ... visualization: • Colonoscopy ... lesions or SSLs • Colon ... Colorectal #Cancer #colon ... #Testing
ACA Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines

When to Screen?
When to Stop?
Family History

Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based
Cancer Screening Tests ... visualization: • Colonoscopy ... lesions or SSLs • Colon ... Colorectal #Cancer #colon ... #Testing #Indications
Management Algorithm for Confusion
- Substrate verification, glucose, oxygen checks
- Toxidrome present
- Focal findings on neurologic examination
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Management Algorithm ... examination - Fever ... criteria - ED testing ... examination, basic (CBC ... Delirium #Management #Algorithm
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Cough, Dyspnea, Fever ... Investigations • Labs: CBC ... , cr, ESR, CRP ... Disease-specific testing ... , biopsy By Tess
Approaching a Difficult Colonoscopy - Scoping Summary
Risk factors for failed C-scope:
 • Incr Age
 • Female
Approaching a Difficult Colonoscopy ... Private practice setting ... 1) Redundant Colon ... intubation rate • Fewer ... diagnosis #management #algorithm
Diarrhea Workup and Management Algorithm in Transplant Patients
First Tier Microbiologic-Testing:
1. C. difficile PCR (Stool)
2. CMV qPCR
and Management Algorithm ... Microbiologic-Testing ... Breath test for ... Colonoscopy +/- ... Workup #Management #Algorithm
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Workup Summary
Use a positive diagnostic strategy with minimal testing.
strategy with minimal testing ... cultures, but test ... risk • Routine colonoscopy ... missing things" → fewer ... lactoferrin + CRP
Urinalysis & Urine Sodium 
Theophilus Protospatharius, a seventh-century physician who wrote the first manuscript focused exclusively
Urinis", determined heating ... urine sediment and color ... Visual exam • Color ... Clarity Dipstick test ... specific gravity test
Diagnosing Brucellosis
Epidemiological Exposures
- Endemic Regions
- Clinical Micro Lab Technicians
- Animal/Vaccine Exposure: Vets, Slaughterhouse workers, hunters
- Unpasteurized
Constitutional: Fevers ... Genitourinary Diagnostic Tests ... : - CBC + Chemistry ... Criteria #Workup #Testing
Intern Pocket Cards - Daily Rounding and Disposition Checklist
Daily Checklist:
 • FEN/GI:
regadenoson stress testinga ... Enoxaparin subQ if CrCl ... Heparin subQ if CrCl ... Recent GI bleed • Code ... compressions okay/never