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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... InfectiousDiseases #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment ... #Indications
Doxycycline - Coverage and Indications
 • Staphylococci (S aureus + CoNS)
 • The tick stuff: Borrelia
- Coverage and Indications ... Atypical" causes of pneumonia ... Bartonella, Q fever ... #pharmacology # ... microbiology
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
Severe Pneumocystis pneumonia ... • COVID-19 pneumonia ... Severe typhoid fever ... #Steroids #Indications ... #infections #management
Neurological Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Acute dystonia - Spasm of muscles of tongue, face, neck, back
reduction; change medication ... Extreme rigidity, fever ... tremor ("rabbit syndrome ... #SideEffects #pharmacology ... #management
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
disequilibrium syndrome ... irrigation • Management ... Torsemide) • Acute pulmonary ... Diuresis #Nephrology #Pharmacology ... #Medications #Table
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
, organizing pneumonia ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Fever 4. ... - Pulmonary ... #diagnosis #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ... cryptococcomas, cavitating pneumonia ... - Pneumonitis (fever ... Fever, chills, lack ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Disease: • 10%-15% Pulmonary ... Usual interstitial pneumonia ... , INC risk PE, Pulmonary ... lubricants • Pharmacologic ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management