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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
treat infectious diseases ... Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... Febrile illness + ARDS ... • Prodrome: fever ... • Autopsy PCR Treatment ... #microbiology #infectiousdiseases
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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and Management Summary ... Ulceroglandular: Fever ... Culture & GS, PCR Treatment ... : • Severe Disease ... #infectiousdiseases
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Diagnosis Framework Disease ... Pneumonia: • 3 syndromes ... angioinvasive disease ... Infections #HIV #AIDS ... differential #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Chagas Disease ( ... and Management Summary ... Mild: Malaise, fever ... • Treatment: ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical features - Classic triad (flank pain, hematuria,
and Management Summary ... night sweats, fever ... Budd Chiari syndrome ... Imaging and Treatment ... Diagnosis #Management #Summary
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
of HIV/AIDS patients ... be present: • AIDS ... - Pneumonitis (fever ... Fever, chills, lack ... Drug reaction/ART toxicity
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
and Management Summary ... - Compartment syndrome ... Muscle swelling - Fever ... or compartment syndrome ... disease 2.
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
Summary Who? ... starting amiodarone treatment ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Fever 4. ... macrophages Treatment
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Shock, Autoimmune disease ... Medication/Drug toxicity ... elevated protein level ... persistent altered level ... epilepticus Treatment