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Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
demonstrated by culture ... Definite IE - Clinical ... Positive blood cultures ... positive blood culture ... involvement - Echocardiogram
Blood Culture Collection Algorithm - Adult Patients with Suspected Systemic Infection 

Pawlowicz et al evidenced based
Blood Culture Collection ... to obtain blood cultures ... drawing blood cultures ... warrant blood cultures ... infections, whose clinical
COVID-19 Dermatologic Manifestations 

#covid19 #covidtoes #dermatology #dermatologic #COVID19 #sarscov2 #clinical #skin
COVID-19 Dermatologic ... covid19 #covidtoes #dermatology ... #dermatologic # ... COVID19 #sarscov2 #clinical
Papillary Muscle Rupture on POCUS

See the "cracking whip"?  This is what papillary muscle rupture looks
Papillary Muscle Rupture ... papillary muscle rupture ... Papillary #Muscle #Rupture ... #Echocardiogram ... #POCUS #Clinical
Bandemia Overview

Normal: < 1%
Clinically significant: > 10%

Band neutrophils are slightly less mature than segmented neutrophils and
Normal: < 1% Clinically ... having positive cultures ... including blood cultures ... likelihood of negative clinical ... neutrophil #WBC #CBC #hematology
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
Peripheral blood cultures ... • Additional culture ... fever, positive cultures ... Obtain single blood culture ... Internet Book of Critical
Illustrative examples of culture-confirmed erythema migrans. A, A single erythema migrans lesion of 8.5 × 5.0
Illustrative examples of culture-confirmed ... #Clinical #Dermatology
Cardiac Rupture with Pericardial Effusion

Apical 4 chamber. Note larger right sided pericardial effusion with significant compression
Cardiac Rupture ... concerning for cardiac rupture ... RJonesSonoEM #Rupture ... MyocardialInfarction #AMI #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... Cardiology #A4c #clinical
Aspergillus terreus on Culture and Microscopy
 - velvety white, later dusky "cinnamon' growth on culture
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Aspergillus terreus on Culture ... cinnamon' growth on culture ... Aspergillus #terreus #clinical ... #culture #Microscopy ... #clinical #microbiology
Sporothrix schenckii

Slide culture (coverslip embedded into culture media and stained with Lactophenol cotton blue) - better
schenckii Slide culture ... embedded into culture ... Sporothrix #schenckii #clinical ... #culture #microscopy