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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... likelihood and clinical ... supraglottic airway ... surgical airway ... airway management
Emergency Tracheostomy Management Algorithm - Patent Upper Airway

This algorithm assumes a potentially patent upper airway, meaning
- Patent Upper Airway ... for the upper airway ... that is difficult ... green bedhead sign ... may be difficult
Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of
some existing difficult-airway ... called the HEAVEN criteria ... to address this clinical ... #PCC #Heaven #Criteria ... #Difficult #Airway
Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... assess intubation difficulty ... do so based on airway ... #clinical #management ... anesthesiology #airway
Parkinson's Disease - Signs and Symptoms
Systemic: Tremor and Slowness, Impaired balance, Small Handwriting, Sleepiness, Trouble Moving
Parkinson's Disease - Signs ... blepharospasm) Mouth: Difficulty ... Excessive salivation, Difficulty ... voice Lungs: Upper airway ... Parkinsons #Disease #Signs
Emergency Laryngectomy Management

This algorithm is paired with the red bed-head sign and indicates that the patient
the red bed-head sign ... have an upper airway ... conventional upper airway ... obstruct their airway ... ventilation is difficult
Thyroid Eye Signs 
Lid Signs
    Dalrymple’s Sign: Lid Retraction.
    Von
Thyroid Eye Signs ... Lid Signs ... Dalrymple’s Sign ... Difficulty in everting ... OPHTHALMOLOGY #clinical
Flexor Tenosynovitis (FTS)

The clinical diagnosis of FTS is made using Kanavel’s Signs:
 - Fusiform swelling.
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Tenosynovitis (FTS) The clinical ... using Kanavel’s Signs ... Tenosynovitis #Kanavels #Criteria ... #Sign #Hand #MSK
McConnell's Sign in Acute Pulmonary Embolism - POCUS

- Dr. Jay Mohan, D.O. RPVI https://twitter.com/DrJayMohan

#McConnells #Sign #PulmonaryEmbolism
McConnell's Sign ... #McConnells #Sign ... AcutePE #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #Clinical #A4C
Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
Definite IE - Clinical ... major clinical criteria ... major and 3 minor clinical ... major and 1 minor clinical ... involvement - Echocardiogram