11 results
Weaning from the Ventilator - Algorithm
Setting up for extubation success
 • Decrease demand — correct metabolic
the Ventilator - Algorithm ... lasting pain meds ... Diuresis — Dry lungs ... are happy lungs ... #Extubation #CriticalCare
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Warm Extremities
 - Distributive Shock - Low JVP
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Shock - Bibasilar Lung ... Left-sided Valvular Disease ... Obstructive Shock - Normal ... /Decreased Breath
Pediatric Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Stridor:
 • Croup
 • Foreign Body
 • Tracheitis
 • Epiglottitis
 •
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Foreign Body Decreased ... Pneumothorax Normal ... Body • Heart Disease ... #Causes #Peds #
Causes of Hypotonic Infant (Floppy Newborn) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Central Nervous System - Decreased LOC, Axial
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Nervous System - Decreased ... • Metabolic Diseases ... • Central Core Disease ... #Causes #Peds #
Hemoglobin A1c (glycated hemoglobin) reflects the average blood glucose concentration over the course of the RBC
correlated with 35-76% decrease ... mortality in the long-term ... cardiovascular diseases ... Abnormal forms of ... Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Abnormalities in Rate and Rhythm of Breathing 
Normal 
The respiratory rate is about 14—20 per min
including restrictive lung ... disease, pleuritic ... Occasional sighs ... Breathing In lung ... disease, expiration
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
event, follow ACC algorithm ... Cataract Plan for Meds ... are needed: • HgbA1c ... unless prior heart/lung ... or death (CARP, DECREASE
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
incomplete Kawasaki Disease ... purposes of this algorithm ... lack of tapering, decreased ... clinical and lab signs ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Nail Pathologies - Findings in or Near Nails

Paronychia 

A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral
, interstitial lung ... disease and lung ... May arise from decreased ... #Abnormal #Pathology ... Diagnosis #Clinical #Signs
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Connective tissue diseases ... Nasal polyps and signs ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... - BAR >1.0 is abnormal