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Acute Voice Hoarseness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Constant - Infectious:
 • Viral Laryngitis
 • Fungal Laryngitis (Monilia)
Acute Voice Hoarseness ... Inflammatory • Voice ... Overuse Variable - Hyperfunction ... Dysphonia #Acute #Voice ... #Hoarseness #Vocal
Basic algorithm for diagnosis and management of hoarseness

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management of hoarseness ... Progressively Hoarse Voice ... ; #diagnosis; #hoarseness
Algorithm and Differential diagnosis of dysphonia (hoarseness) #Diagnosis #ENT #Primarycare #Pulmonology #Dysphonia #Hoarseness #Hoarse #Voice #Differential
of dysphonia (hoarseness ... Pulmonology #Dysphonia #Hoarseness ... #Hoarse #Voice
Chronic Voice Hoarseness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Infectious:
 • Bacterial Infection
 • Fungal Infection (Monilia)
Inflammatory:
 • Chronic
Chronic Voice Hoarseness ... Tremor #Chronic #Voice ... #Hoarseness #Vocal
Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale
+4 - Combative, Violent, Immediate Danger to Staff
+3 - Very Agitated - Pulls
has Sustained to Voice ... Briefly Awakens to Voice ... Eye Opening to Voice ... No Response to Voice ... No Response to Voice
Epiglottitis - Swollen inflamed epiglottis 
Clinical (Rapid onset) 
 • Fever 
 • Sore throat
Drooling • Muffled voice
Cushing Syndrome Testing Algorithm
INDICATIONS FOR TESTING:
 • Suspected Cushing syndrome (central obesity, muscle weakness, refractory hypertension)
Testing:
endocrinology #Adrenal #Hyperfunction
Medications associated with neuroleptic malignant syndrome

First-generation and second-generation antipsychotics are dopamine receptor antagonists, which produce a
of dopaminergic hypofunction
Lung Cancer Overview - Types, Location and Characteristics and Histology
SPHERE of complications: 
Superior vena cava syndrome
laryngeal symptoms (hoarseness
What is the typical differential for hoarseness? 

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differential for hoarseness ... Progressively Hoarse Voice ... ; #diagnosis; #hoarseness