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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Aplastic Anemia - Overview

Who?
• M = F
• 3 peaks:	1) Childhood	2) 15-25 years	3) >60 years

What?
• Aplastic anemia
Presentation: • Fever ... recurrent infections/fevers ... - Antithyroid medications ... index < 2 • EPO Level ... Treatment:
Bradycardia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

BRADI Mnemonic
 • BRASH/Hyperkalemia
 • Reduced oxygen/Glucose/Temp
 • ACS
 • Drugs
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• Flecanide toxicity ... Diptheria • Typhoid fever ... Acute rheumatic fever ... Psittacosis • Q fever ... • Yellow fever
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Pneumonia: • 3 syndromes ... • Fever, weight ... of a "flu-like syndrome ... 100% of cases), anemia ... differential #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Acute Retroviral Syndrome
Acute Retroviral Syndrome is the symptomatic presentation of acute human immunodeficiency virus infection

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Acute Retroviral Syndrome ... Headache (45%) • Fever ... • Viral RNA level ... enzymes ↑ • Mild anemia ... antibody test) Treatment
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 ... months or years of treatment ... #SideEffects #pharmacology
Visceral Leishmaniasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Species: Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, Leishmania chagasi
Where: South Asia, East
2-6 months • Fever ... Lymphohistiocytosis • Anemia ... culture, PCR, K39) Treatment ... stibogluconate 20 mg/kg/d IV ... #infectiousdiseases
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
mucus, Abd pain, Fever ... Tx Management (IDSA ... Bezlotoxumab 10 mg/kg IV ... /severe CDI IDSA ... #infectiousdiseases
Emergency Treatment Algorithm for Convulsive Status Epilepticus
1. ABCDEFG (ABC's and Don't Ever Forget the Glucose)
2. Airway:
Emergency Treatment ... ABC's and Don't Ever ... Refractory medications ... #Epilepticus #Treatment ... Management #Neurology #Pharmacology
Causes of Hypokalemia
Transcellular Shifts:
 - Alkalosis, Increased plasma insulin (treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis), ß-Adrenergic agonists, Hypokalemic
plasma insulin (treatment ... use), Gitelman's syndrome ... , Heat stroke, Fever ... and lymphomas, IV ... megaloblastic anemia