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Bradycardia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

BRADI Mnemonic
 • BRASH/Hyperkalemia
 • Reduced oxygen/Glucose/Temp
 • ACS
 • Drugs
 •
Bradycardia • Renal failure ... Sleep apnea • Hypercarbia ... Spondylarthropathies Other causes ... Dysautonomia • Failure ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Differential Diagnosis of Respiratory Acid-Base Disorders
Alkalosis
A. Central nervous system stimulation: Pain, Anxiety, psychosis, Fever, Cerebrovascular accident,
Salicylates, Cardiac failure ... chest, Cardiac failure ... Septicemia, Hepatic failure ... Hypoventilation, Permissive hypercapnia ... differential #diagnosis #causes
ECMO Troubleshooting - OnePager Summary
ECMO Emergency Protocol - Team should train/practice & have necessary supplies at
circuit and can cause ... to OXYGENATOR FAILURE ... EMBOLISM - can cause ... • PUMP FAILURE ... • HYPERCAPNIA/
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
Guidelines for Crises ... exclude hypoxia and hypercarbia ... as causes: • ... syndrome) • Medical causes ... interaction, renal failure
Flapping tremors of Asterixis

DDx
- Decompensated cirrhosis or acute liver failure.
- Renal failure /azotemia.
- Respiratory failure with
or acute liver failure ... - Renal failure ... - Respiratory failure ... dioxide toxicity (hypercapnia
Causes of Postoperative Hypercarbia:
Hypoventilation 
 - drug-induced central respiratory depression 
 - intrapulmonary abnormality 
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Causes of Postoperative ... Hypercarbia: Hypoventilation ... Postoperative #Hypercarbia ... #Causes #Differential ... #Hypercapnia #Anesthesiology
Chronic Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure Phenotypes
Pink Puffers (robust vent drive) ↑ their WOB when pulmonary mechanics gradually
Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure ... rise) → chronic hypercapnia ... #Respiratory #Failure
Causes of Failure to Thrive
 - Inadequate intake 
 - Inadequate retention 
 - Malabsorption
Causes of Failure ... Malabsorption - Failure ... FailureToThrive #FTT #Causes
Occult Causes of Non-Response to Vasopressors

vital disclaimer: the cognitive response to hypotension should not be reaching
Occult Causes of ... improvements. failure ... response -> cognitive pause ... toxicologic - 2nd cause ... #Differential #Causes
Causes of acute heart failure
 - Acute pressure overload (increased afterload, mechanical flow obstruction) 
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Causes of acute ... heart failure - ... #Acute #Heart #Failure ... #Differential #Causes