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Antibiotics for severe community-onset pneumonia 

Atypical coverage always 

- Usually azithromycin 500 mg daily 

- Doxycycline
- Risk for pseudomonas ... Structural lung disease ... #Community #Acquired ... #Pneumonia #CAP ... Antibiotics #Coverage #Management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
- Summary 1. ... Pts: cardiogenic shock ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... Delivery • Stable ... months before 1°
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... > 1% risk of CV ... Change in clinical ... postoperative cardiac ... medical and surgical management
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
increased infection risk ... • Affects 1:25,000 ... -> 40 years • Can ... to 8 years Clinical ... severe community-acquired
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... post-ABx, but can ... be community-acquired ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
typically fall into 1 ... essentially Cardiogenic Shock ... Cardiac cath if ... differential #algorithm #management ... cardiology #treatment #table
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Food products Risk ... /Other RGM • Cardiac ... Complex (MAC): • Acquired ... patients such as: 1. ... : • Clinical (
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Risk Factors: • ... Anemia ✗ NOT a risk ... ⚠️ Cardiogenic shock ... experience recovery of cardiac ... recognition and management
LAMP2 cardiomyopathy in a 12-year-old boy with sudden death (Table 1; patient #1). A. At autopsy,
sudden death (Table ... Adjacent cardiac ... defibrillation shock ... #Clinical #Gross ... HOCM #HCM #Danon #Disease
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
MUCORMYCOSIS • Risk ... has five major clinical ... forms: 1) Rhinocerebral ... fever • Septic shock ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management