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Aplastic Anemia - Illness Script
Signs and symptoms:
 • Recurrent infections from neutropenia
 • Mucosal bleeding from
Symptomatic anemia Diagnosis ... (transfusions, antibiotics ... if neutropenic fever ... progress to MDS or acute ... #management #treatment
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
Oroya Fever Hematologic ... Nodular → Mular DIAGNOSIS ... TREATMENT: ​• Acute ... Supportive and antibiotics ... #diagnosis #management
“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
investigations and treatments ... CRP < 20 mg/L #Diagnosis ... #Management #Pediatrics ... #Peds #Febrile ... Algorithm #LP #Antibiotics
Acute Dacryocystitis- A 4-week-old boy was brought to the emergency department after having drainage from both
He received a diagnosis ... received intravenous antibiotic ... agents, and the fever ... the first day of treatment ... clinical #photo #peds
Acute Pancreatitis - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Epigastric abdominal pain (90%, characteristically
Acute Pancreatitis ... • Antibiotics ... #Pancreatitis #Acute ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Treatment #Gastroenterology
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
presents as an acute ... following: • Fever ... • Bicytopenia Treatment ... rapidly, and empiric antibiotic ... #management #treatment
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
and Management ... on ABx) → Acute ... mucus, Abd pain, Fever ... #management #treatment ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
The Febrile Infant Step-by-Step Algorithm
This is an algorithm developed by European emergency physicians to identify low-risk
treatment. http ... 92.0% and 46.9% #Diagnosis ... #EBM #Management ... #Pediatrics #Peds ... Stratification #Fever
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
days after an acute ... • Diagnosis: ... - Fever, ... - Antibiotic ... #management #treatment
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
/SYMPTOMS: • Acute ... Cough, dyspnea, fever ... identified (autoimmune, meds ... , neoplastic) TREATMENT ... #management #pulmonary