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Necrotizing Fasciitis: African-American patient with diabetes that predisposed him to rapidly 
progressive infection. Lower extremity is
Necrotizing Fasciitis ... progressive infection ... As the infection ... occurs deep to the skin ... Images #Clinical
Necrotizing Fasciitis on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Look at the superficial soft tissue for hyperechoic punctate
Necrotizing Fasciitis ... Care Ultrasound (POCUS ... polymicrobial infection ... #Fasciitis #Skin ... Cellulitis #Ultrasound #Clinical
Necrotizing Fasciitis: Severe infection which travels in the suprafacial plane. In this instance, the infection
started in
Necrotizing Fasciitis ... apparent in the skin ... Catalog of Clinical ... Images #Clinical ... #Photo #Necrotizing
Thigh pain/tenderness with minimal overlying skin changes. 😮 Diagnosis?

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Necrotizing myositis/fasciitis. To the OR!

- Sarah Medeiros @DrSarahEM

#Clinical
minimal overlying skin ... changes. 😮 Diagnosis ... Necrotizing myositis ... @DrSarahEM #Clinical ... #POCUS #Necrotizing
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... have PR3-ANCA) • Necrotizing ... gut involvement, abdominal ... , recent viral infection
Portal Venous Gas on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) secondary to Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Adult male with abdominal
Care Ultrasound (POCUS ... ) secondary to Necrotizing ... Diagnosis/Differential ... Portal #VenousGas #POCUS ... #clinical #abdominal
Waterborne Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Infections that can be acquired from fresh water, brackish water, sea
- Differential Diagnosis ... Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection ... Blooms (HABs) Skin ... aeruginosa • Necrotizing ... is biphasic • Clinical
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Pulmonary exam - Skin ... exam for infection ... Change in clinical ... undergoing AAA or upper abdominal ... stratification #diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... Pulmonary 3) Abdominal ... osteomyelitis or skin ... fungal stain of clinical ... Mouth, throat, skin