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Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Embolism, Pneumothorax ... (JVP, edema), Lung ... Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... , lung sliding) ... #Management #treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Most common cause ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... #Abscess #pulmonary ... #management #treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
characteristic features Clinical ... : Hemoptysis, pneumothorax ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... Tuberculosis #TB #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
characteristic features Clinical ... : Hemoptysis, pneumothorax ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... Tuberculosis #TB #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
- Sporadic cases ... inoculation • Clinical ... presentation of TB, lung ... with an upper lobe ... • Management
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
absence of intrinsic lung ... disease Caused ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... on radioactive lung ... #management #treatment
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Unknown • 6-7 cases ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... #ILD #diagnosis ... #management
Pulmonary Nodule
Evaluation is guided by nodule size & assessment of probability of malignancy. In addition is
yield of available diagnostic ... masses & should ... malignancy, clinical ... The treatment of ... Management options
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Hypocomplementemia • Can cause ... salivary ducts Clinical ... MALT Lymphoma • Lung ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment ... #Management
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
This patient’s clinical ... exam findings and clinical ... does a better job ... Most commonly caused ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung