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Altered Mental Status - Differential Diagnosis
 • Neurologic: Stroke, Cerebral hypoxia, Cerebral hemorrhage, Seizure, Trauma, TBI,
Altered Mental Status ... - Differential Diagnosis ... • Neurologic: ... encephalopathy, Hypoglycemia ... #Causes
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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Fever, headache, altered ... mental status, ... Demyelinating disease caused ... monoparesis), limb ataxia ... , gait ataxia, and
Diagnostic algorithm for differentiating vestibular neuritis from stroke in patients with AVS. This sequence of testing
Diagnostic algorithm ... components: targeted neurologic ... ataxia. ... disposition, even if the cause ... CNS, Central nervous
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
pulmonary etc) • CNS ... lesions of the central ... Metabolic myopathies: Hypoglycemia ... parainfluenza, Coxsackie, HIV ... #neurology
CNS Infections - Viral Encephalitis and Bacterial Meningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Viral Encephalitis:
MCC: Enteroviruses (e.g., coxsackievirus
CNS Infections - ... Herpesviruses (MCC: HSV ... rigidity) • Altered ... Singh @rav7ks #CNS ... #neurology #meningitis
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis ... only if no clear cause ... Bicarb<22) - avoid NS ... Ca-gluconate or 1g CaCl- (central ... Monitor hypoglycemia