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Falls: Pathogenesis and Complications
Poly-pharmacy
Disorders affecting movement and balance
 - Sensory deficits
 - Neuromuscular degeneration/Cerebrovascular disease
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(Alzheimer's) Environmental ... Lifestyle #Geriatrics
Causes of Falls in the Elderly - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
- Intrinsic Factors - 
Presyncope / Syncope
Psychotropics Environment ... Falls #Elderly #Geriatrics
Elder Abuse
Caregiver 
• Substance abuse 
• Mental illness 
• Financial dependence on elder 
• Unemployed 
•
family violence Environment ... #Elder #Abuse #Geriatrics
PINCH ME Mnemonic for Causes of Delirium

Delirium is characterized by acute onset, transient confusion or change
Medications E - Environmental ... Differential #Diagnosis #Geriatrics
Blast Injury Categories
 - Primary - Direct effect from blast shockwave 
 - Secondary - Impact
exploding device or environment ... - Quaternary - Environmental
HEEADSSS - for psychosocial history taking in adolescents

Home environment, Education and employment, Eating, peer-related Activities, Drugs,
adolescents Home environment ... Screening #Peds #Pediatrics
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) 10-Item Shortened Form #Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Geriatric #Depression #Scale #GDS #Shortened #Short
Geriatric Depression ... Form #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... #Geriatric #Depression
Causes of Chronic Pediatric Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Poor Growth
 - Non-Specific CXR
Aspiration • Environmental ... Cough • Environmental ... #Causes #Peds #Pediatrics
Causes of Hemolytic Anemia - Differential Diagnosis
Inherited
 • Membrane
 • Internal
    - Hemoglobin
Acquired • Environment
Pathophysiology of Hemolytic Anemia
 - Defects in RBC internal contents (thalassemia, hemoglobinopathies, and metabolic defects)
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Defects in the RBC's environment