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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Intraabdominal Infection ... AAST 2021 global clinical ... intra-abdominal infections ... antimicrobials #infectiousdiseases ... #management #pharmacology
Anti-IL6 Agents (Tocilizumab, Siltuximab) in COVID19

IL-6 activates T cells and macrophages, among other cell types (see
Siltuximab) in COVID19 ... Cytokine Activation Syndrome ... respiratory tract infection ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Medications
Drugs Used for the Treatment of COVID-19 Infection

** Editor Note (from ophthalmology MD input) - Hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine
the Treatment of COVID ... -19 Infection ... highlighted circle= clinical ... #Pharmacology # ... Table #Management
Waterborne Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Infections that can be acquired from fresh water, brackish water, sea
- Differential ... Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome ... is biphasic • Clinical ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Blood Culture-Negative Infective Endocarditis (BCNIE)
Definition: No etiology found after 3 separate blood cultures remain negative for
Infection with ... antimicrobials, clinical ... antiphospholipid syndrome ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #differential ... #workup #infectiousdiseases
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
response preceding infection ... like illnesses, COVID ... meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... #diagnosis #management
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
brain PRES Clinical ... Preeclampsia, Eclampsia, Infection ... Reversible course Differential ... Diagnosis: • Infection ... #diagnosis #management
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... Lung Disease: • Clinical ... #differential # ... diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Clinical Picture ... life-threatening Differential ... Clinical DX: - ... precipitated by: Drugs, infection ... Gravis #diagnosis #management