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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
treat infectious diseases ... ventilation, ARDS acute ... 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 ... • Prodrome: fever ... • Autopsy PCR Treatment ... #microbiology # ... infectiousdiseases
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
Mild: Malaise, fever ... Acute myocarditis ... • Treatment: ... Diagnosis #Management #Microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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Ulceroglandular: Fever ... Culture & GS, PCR Treatment ... : • Severe Disease ... #infectiousdiseases ... #microbiology
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
disequilibrium syndrome ... Torsemide) • Acute ... hyperaldosteronism • Acute ... Tolvaptan) • Treatment ... Diuresis #Nephrology #Pharmacology
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
: • Fever, chills ... Purulent Arthritis Syndrome ... afebrile • Acute ... Diagnosis #Management #Microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Acute Retroviral Syndrome
Acute Retroviral Syndrome is the symptomatic presentation of acute human immunodeficiency virus infection

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Syndrome Acute ... Retroviral Syndrome ... • Viral RNA level ... antibody test) Treatment ... ART to slow HIV disease
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
Overwhelming clinical syndrome ... age, however the disease ... presents as an acute ... • Bicytopenia Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Neurological Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Acute dystonia - Spasm of muscles of tongue, face, neck, back
Antipsychotic Drugs Acute ... Extreme rigidity, fever ... tremor ("rabbit syndrome ... months or years of treatment ... #SideEffects #pharmacology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... to 12 weeks for acute ... extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases