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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... InfectiousDiseases #Infections ... #Pharmacology #Management ... #Treatment #Indications
IDSA Algorithm for the Management of Purulent skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). 
Mild infection: for
Algorithm for the Management ... Mild infection: ... 12 000 or <400 cells ... or those with clinical ... SSTIs #Algorithm #Management
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Pattern - Chest Radiology ... Opacities: • Infectious ... Nocardia, zoonotic infections ... pulmonary #CXR #clinical ... #CT
Urinary Tract Tuberculosis - Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed mild dilatation of the
computed tomography (CT ... the left renal pelvis ... bacilli (Panel D) #Clinical ... #Radiology #Pathology ... #CT #Urogenital
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
TEE) • Chest CT ... for metastatic infection ... spleen, brain) Indications ... • Aggressive management ... Internet Book of Critical
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Parasitic infections ... Medications 7. ... imaging with barium, CT ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to 8 years Clinical ... disease • Infectious ... Chest CT: • Ground-glass ... and M panel Management ... hematology #diagnosis #management
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
Activation of CD8 T cells ... Phagocytosis of blood cells ... accumulation of clinical ... Assessment • Clinical ... Lymphohistiocytosis #diagnosis #management
Blood Culture Collection Algorithm - Adult Patients with Suspected Systemic Infection 

Pawlowicz et al evidenced based
Suspected Systemic Infection ... , whose clinical ... urinary tract infection ... #Management #BloodCultures ... Protocol #Shapiro #Indications
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
food, salad bar Clinical ... Pregnancy • CNS infection ... ) • CSF (CNS Infection ... ) • MRI / CT if ... Monocytogenes #diagnosis #management