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Stress Dose Steroids - Medical and Surgery Indications
Minor Stress:
 • Inguinal hernia repair
 • Mid febrile
- Medical and Surgery ... Minor Stress: • Inguinal ... hernia repair ... • Mid-moderate nausea ... Indications #Dosing #management
Pediatric Causes of Abdominal Pain

Surgical:
 - Acute appendicitis 
 - Intestinal obstruction including intussusception 
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Pediatric Causes ... intussusception - Inguinal ... hernia - Peritonitis ... #Pediatrics #Causes ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Diagnosis Framework ... changes • Urinary symptoms ... Nephrolithiasis • Femoral/Inguinal ... hernia • Epididymitis ... • Abdominal hernia
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Rare Causes of Abdominal ... • Hernias - Past ... surgery to incisional ... hernias: clinical ... #differential #diagnosis
Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19
 • Neurologic: Headaches, Dizziness, Encephalopathy, Guillain-Barré, Ageusia, Myalgia, Anosmia, Stroke
 • Renal:
Gastrointestinal: Diarrhea, Nausea ... vomiting, Abdominal pain ... Urticaria, Vesicles, Pernio-like ... Extrapulmonary #Diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
Intraoperative Circulatory Embolus - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Causes: thrombus, fat, amniotic fluid, air/gas.
Signs: hypotension, tachycardia,
Intraoperative Circulatory ... in Anaesthesia Causes ... decreased ETCO2 Symptoms ... consult vascular surgeon ... #Checklist #Diagnosis
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis ... and Management ... , cough, chest pain ... 16-32%): lupus pernio ... #Management #Signs
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
is conscious, symptoms ... include chest pain ... rapidly complete the surgery ... #Checklist #Diagnosis ... #Management #Workup
Esophageal Necrosis
Etiology:
 - Ischemia and Gastric Outlet Obstruction with GERD may be inciting events
 - Associated
Paraesophageal hernia ... melena - Other GI symptoms ... retrosternal chest pain ... Diagnosis: - EGD ... #management #gastroenterology
Mediastinal Mass - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Anterior Mediastinal Mass - 5T’s
 • Thymic neoplasm
 • Teratoma (or
- Differential Diagnosis ... diverticulum, and hiatal hernia ... Mediastinal Mass Symptoms ... breath • Chest pain ... #Differential #Diagnosis