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Community Acquired Pneumonia - Severity and Prognosis
Criteria for Severe CAP - Severe CAP present in 1
Community Acquired ... CAP - Severe CAP ... present in 1 major ... criteria: Septic shock ... #psi #diagnosis
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Presenting Features
 • History in favor of CAP: Dyspnea, Cough, particularly if
Community Acquired ... Pneumonia - Presenting ... CAP - Severe CAP ... present in 1 major ... #Pneumonia #diagnosis
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
resembles community-acquired ... pneumonia with ... • Diagnosis ... - Moderate to severe ... Amphotericin B for 1-
Antibiotics for severe community-onset pneumonia 

Atypical coverage always 

- Usually azithromycin 500 mg daily 

- Doxycycline
Antibiotics for severe ... community-onset pneumonia ... piperacillin-tazobactam Septic Shock ... #Community #Acquired ... #Pneumonia #CAP
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Community Acquired ... Pneumonia (CAP) ... - Diagnosis and ... Egophony (May appear 1- ... #CAP #Diagnosis
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Clostridioides Difficile ... Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... Perforation) Pathophysiology ... post-ABx, but can ... be community-acquired
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
• Affects 1:25,000 ... -> 40 years • Can ... have frequent and severe ... community-acquired ... infections: Pneumonia
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Deficiency) - Diagnosis ... Vitamin C is required ... Supplementation with 1 ... #AscorbicAcid #Pathophysiology ... #Nutrition #Diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
clinical forms: 1) ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... disseminated) can ... SYSTEMIC CANDIDIASIS Can ... • Septic shock