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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
2.
use the Clinical Frailty ... Scale (CFS) ... Terminally ill (CFS ... "vulnerable" (CFS ... #Clinical #Frailty
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Rockwood Clinical Frailty ... definition of frailty ... tools to assess frailty ... Typically, mild frailty ... #Scale #Score #CFS
Antibiotics and CNS Diffusion

1. Drugs with good CNS diffusion:

- Fluoroquinolones, Fluconazole, voriconazole, Rifampin, Oxazolidinones, Metronidazole

2. Drugs
Antibiotics and CNS ... Drugs with good CNS ... with moderate CNS ... Drugs with low CNS ... #Antibiotics #CNS
How to Measure Frailty in Your Patients - Clinical Frailty Scale

#Frailty #Measurement #Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Scale
How to Measure Frailty ... Patients - Clinical Frailty ... Scale #Frailty
A Model for Defining Frailty

Resiliency, Adaptive Capacity in Fit, Prefrail and Frail Patients

#Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty #Model
Model for Defining Frailty ... Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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Pathologic / Fragility ... Immobilization #Fragility
Mayo UC Endoscopic Classification
 • Score = 0 (normal or inactive disease) - Normal vascular pattern
pattern, mild friability ... vascular pattern, friability
Discharge Dispositions for Patients
Subacute Rehabilitation in Skilled Nursing Facilities 
Long-Term Care Facility or Nursing Home
Assisted Living
Long-Term Care Facility ... Assisted Living Facility
Intern Pocket Cards - Increasing Levels of Care

 • Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
 • Intermediate Care/Step-Down
Skilled Nursing Facility ... Residential Care Facility
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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CNS Infection in ... HIV-Associated CNS ... Infections: • Most CNS ... • CNS opportunistic ... hemorrhage • CSF