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Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Triad: Fever, neck ... Passively flex neck ... stiffness with neck ... protein, gram stain, culture ... diagnosis #testing #physicalexam
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 ... warrant blood cultures
Stool Cultures - Indications in Diarrhea
Patient Categories to Order Stool Cultures On:
 • Persisting 1 week
Stool Cultures - ... to Order Stool Cultures ... positive stool culture ... iMedEducation #Stool #Cultures
Jugular Venous Distension on PhysicalExam

#JVP #Distension #Elevated #PhysicalExam #Clinical #Cardiology #Neck #Video #Jugular
Distension on PhysicalExam ... Distension #Elevated #PhysicalExam ... Clinical #Cardiology #Neck
Atrial Flutter on Jugular Neck Examination

What does the neck / JVP exam suggest about the patient’s
Flutter on Jugular Neck ... What does the neck ... #Jugular #JVP #Neck ... #PhysicalExam #
Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
demonstrated by culture ... Positive blood cultures ... separate blood cultures ... positive blood culture ... positive blood culture
Thyroid Goiter in Severe Hypothyroidism on Neck Physical Examination

TSH 124. Hashimoto’s, lost to care and thyroid
Hypothyroidism on Neck ... DrCindyCooper Note the neck ... Thyroid #Mass #Neck ... #PhysicalExam #
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
My Patient with Infective Endocarditis (IE) Has Negative Blood Cultures
 - Did they receive antibiotics prior
Negative Blood Cultures ... antibiotics prior to cultures ... Number one cause of culture
Kussmaul's Sign in Constrictive Pericarditis on Physical Exam

- Susan Joseph MD @SusanJosephMD

#Kussmauls #Sign #Pericarditis #physicalexam #clinical
#Pericarditis #physicalexam ... jvp #cardiology #neck