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Button Battery Ingestion Triage and Treatment Guideline - Algorithm

#ButtonBattery #Battery #Ingestion #Algorithm #Management #Treatment #Guidelines #Toxicology
Button Battery Ingestion ... Triage and Treatment ... ButtonBattery #Battery ... Algorithm #Management #Treatment
Owing to the morbidity and need for urgent treatment, STEMI is the default diagnosis is patients
need for urgent treatment ... STElevation #STSegment #Differential ... #Patterns
Inflammatory Myopathies
Dermatomyositis
 • Onset: Subacute
 • Pattern: Proximal
 • CK: Up to 50X ULN
 • Autoantibodies:
: Subacute • Pattern ... : Subacute • Pattern ... or subacute • Pattern ... initially worsens after ... Inflammatory #Myopathies #differential
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Miliary Pattern ... lungs • Named after ... inhalational injury Differential ... PulmPEEPs #Miliary #Pattern ... Chest #Radiology #differential
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
Differential diagnosis ... to think of the differential ... to look at the pattern ... more than one pattern ... respond to the treatment
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential ... involvement, irregular pattern ... Responsive to Treatment ... growth, response to treatment ... Diagnosis #NonHodgkin #differential
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
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to Headaches - Differential ... PHANTOMS): • Pattern ... deficits • Temporal artery ... #Headache #Differential
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Definition: mean pulmonary-artery pressure > 25mmHg
mean pulmonary-artery ... mosaic parenchymal pattern ... Bypass Other Treatment ... Balloon Pulmonary-Artery ... reduce pulmonary-artery
Undifferentiated critical congenital heart disease: Patterns of Presentation 
Pink baby:
 • Presents at 1-6 mo
heart disease: Patterns ... tachypnea, FTT) after ... #HeartDisease #patterns ... #presentation #Differential
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
30%), Variable pattern ... deterioration after ... corticosteroids TREATMENT ... poor improvement after ... Diagnosis #Management #treatment