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Chest Pain - Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm

History and Exam
Acute life-threatening causes:
 • Acute myocardial infarction
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Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm ... ultrasound • CXR ... Serial troponin; HEART ... score • PERC; ... Well score for
2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A
Management of Heart ... Cardiology/American Heart ... Task Force on Clinical ... ACCAHA2017 #cardiology #treatment ... #algorithm #sCHF
Left lower lobe atelectasis - There is a triangular density seen through the cardiac shadow.
This must
posterior to the heart ... the opposite #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #LLL #Lobar #Collapse
Emergency Management of Hyperkalemia in Adults
Assess Patient - Airway Breathing Circulation Disability Exposure (ABCDE) Approach
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- 6.4 mmol/L - Treatment ... guided by clinical ... indicated Protect the Heart ... Hyperkalemia #management #algorithm ... #treatment
Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
Algorithm for Management ... ventilated • CXR ... of AECOPD: • Clinical ... #COPD #AECOPD #Algorithm ... #Exacerbation #treatment
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
if they have no clinical ... purposes of this algorithm ... conditions met: z score ... effusion, or z scores ... echo is positive, treatment
TRALI vs TACO - Transfusion Reactions
TRALI:
 • Epidemiology: 0.1% of transfused patientsl
 • Risk factors: Critical
Risk factors: Critical ... : 33% • Treatment ... high CVP, left heart ... fluid balance, and CXR ... : No • Treatment
Right lower lobe atelectasis
Chest x-rays of a 70-year old male who fell from the stairs and
border of the heart ... lung but by the collapsed ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... RLL #Lobar #Collapse
There is a right lower lobe atelectasis.
Notice the abnormal right border of the heart.
The right interlobar
border of the heart ... lung but by the collapsed ... the normal right heart ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #RLL #Lobar
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
- Hyperthermia/Heat ... exhaustion, Heat ... injury, Heat stroke ... Dermatomyositis Clinical ... ) • AKI: BUN/Cr