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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical ... inflammatory lung injury ... increased pulmonary vascular ... heart failure should ... Summary #CheatSheet #Diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... to local skin injury ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... #management #signs
Efforts to standardize the approach to trauma have led to an algorithmic, thoughtless approach to trauma
In critically injured ... fantastically useful test ... diagnostic step ... #Management #Trauma ... #BigTrauma #BeforeCT
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
when evaluation should ... or acute kidney injury ... Proven age of onset before ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... Causes: • Vascular
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... What we should be ... liver or renal injury ... tests before beginning ... gluconeogenesis Liver Injury
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
lung disease Caused ... intrapulmonary vascular ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... Should be performed ... 10 minutes of rest
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... or dilated) • Valvular ... and relief of IVC ... waiting ~6 months before ... started, patients should
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Diagnosis and Management Summary

WHAT?
 • Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common systemic inflammatory
and Management ... disease of unknown cause ... CLINICAL: • Physical ... based on clinical ... and long head biceps
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
determine if stress test ... Change in clinical ... Intraabdominal - Orthopedic ... medical and surgical management ... stratification #diagnosis
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... Presentation: Injury ... negative, MOG-IgG test ... should be ordered ... #management #neurology