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Causes of Cough and Hemoptysis
Acute Inflammation 
 - Laryngitis 
 - Tracheobronchitis 
 - Mycoplasma and
Causes of Cough ... Lung Abscess - Asthma ... , Chemicals, Gases ... #Differential #Causes ... #Table
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
 •
Causes of Chronic ... Artery Disease • Stable ... Obstruction • Asthma ... Pleural Thickening/Masses ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
• They must be able ... production to cause ... severe COPD and asthma
Summary table of types of hypersensitivity reactions. 
Type 1
 - Mediators: lgE
 - Antigen Form: Soluble
Summary table of ... Allergen-specific lgE causes ... allergies, Eczema, Asthma ... types #allergy #table
Pulmonary Pathology and Associated Lung Ultrasound Findings
Pneumothorax:
 - No lung sliding/barcode sign
 - Lung point (hard
pleura in severe cases ... sliding COPD or Asthma ... submassive PE) POCUS ... #signs #Lung #POCUS
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
correctly diagnose a case ... that any given case ... implies being able ... it has a narrow focus ... #Calculation #Table
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Causes of Lactate ... The most common causes ... - Many other causes ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... Seizures - Severe asthma
Most episodes of chronic cough in adults are caused by upper airway cough syndrome (UACS, also
in adults are caused ... drip syndrome), asthma ... has two or more causes ... three most common causes ... #Differential #Table
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
Huge cardiac masses ... clinically completely stable ... clinical #cardiology #pocus
Beyond the classic trauma patient during your E-Fast Exam, who else does the Sono-Pros scan?
- Primary
, acute severe asthma ... forget iatrogenic causes ... #pneumothorax #POCUS