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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
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... • Prodrome: fever ... • Autopsy PCR Treatment ... #microbiology # ... infectiousdiseases
Clozapine Toxicology
Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic most often reserved for use in patients who have treatment-resistant
Clozapine Toxicology ... patients who have treatment-resistant ... metabolized in the liver ... #Toxicity #Diagnosis ... #Pharmacology
Phases of Colchicine Toxicity
 - Early Phase (0-24h) 
 - Multi-organ failure Phase (1-7 days)
of Colchicine Toxicity ... Respiratory Distress Syndrome ... Renal failure, Liver ... #Toxicology #Phases ... #Pharmacology #
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
starting amiodarone treatment ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Fever 4. ... macrophages Treatment ... diagnosis #management #Toxicology
Methotrexate Toxicology 

Intravenous leucovorin (folinic acid) treatment serves as a cofactor necessary for synthesis of thymidylate
Methotrexate Toxicology ... (folinic acid) treatment ... evidence of marrow toxicity ... #Toxicity #Management ... #Pharmacology
Babesiosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Disease: Release of merozoites from erythrocytes and associated loss of
setting of low-level ... Treatment: • Immunocompetent ... #Babesiosis #Babesia ... Diagnosis #Management #microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Hypercoagulable (APLAS) Microbiology ... night sweats, fever ... Cholesterol emboli syndrome ... hematuria, + RF Treatment ... Diagnosis #cardiology #infectiousdiseases