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COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical and laboratory testing
Lung Ultrasound
HRCT scan
In-hospital treatment
Severity assessment and respiratory support 
Post-mortem
COVID-19 Diagnosis ... and Management ... testing Lung Ultrasound ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Summary #treatment
Dengue Fever - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Dengue Fever → Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever →Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock
and Management ... Headache, Retroocular pain ... test, Abdominal pain ... 7 days (Ig)M Treatment ... #InfectiousDiseases
Psittacosis 
Pathogen: Chlamydia psittaci - obligate intracellular gram negative
Transmission:
 • Birds are the primary reservoir
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non-productive cough, chest pain ... hemoptysis, diarrhea Diagnosis ... #microbiology #diagnosis ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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and Management ... unilateral symptoms (pain ... Culture & GS, PCR Treatment ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Pancreatitis management checklist 
Evaluation to guide etiology & management 
 - RUQ ultrasound 
 - Calcium
- RUQ ultrasound ... Pain control - ... gram Q6hr) and pain-dose ... ketamine infusion ... Pancreatitis #Checklist #Diagnosis
Visceral Leishmaniasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Species: Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, Leishmania chagasi
Where: South Asia, East
and Management ... Malaise, Abdominal Pain ... culture, PCR, K39) Treatment ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Acute Pancreatitis - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Epigastric abdominal pain (90%, characteristically
and Management ... Epigastric abdominal pain ... ileus), consider pain-dose ... ketamine (ICU); ... #Management #Treatment
Aortic Dissection Pearls
Aortic dissection is caused by a tear in the tunica intima, the innermost layer
chest/abd/back pain ... Examine for: ... deficit • Shock Treatment ... Aortic #Dissection #diagnosis ... #management #vascular
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
and Management ... blood/mucus, Abd pain ... IDSA 2021 CDI Treatment ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
like illnesses, COVID ... Hands or feet • Pain ... Guillain-Barre Diagnosis ... Barre #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #management #treatment