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Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
Endocarditis checklist ... w/ septic pulmonary ... • Persistent fever ... #checklist #criticalcare ... #diagnosis #management
Pancreatitis management checklist 
Evaluation to guide etiology & management 
 - RUQ ultrasound 
 - Calcium
Pancreatitis management ... checklist Evaluation ... - RUQ ultrasound ... strategy as for septic ... #Pancreatitis #Checklist
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Cardiogenic Shock - Management ... Checklist Evaluation ... and/or digoxin level ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... #Management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
night sweats, fever ... Cerebral > Splenic, pulmonary ... Glomerulonephritis Septic ... #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
normal glucose level ... • Septic shock ... • Meningitis, septic ... arthritis, and endocarditis ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... Testing: • TSH level ... Anticoagulation: • Initial heparin ... AFib #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Endocarditis - Overview ... night sweats, fever ... Cerebral > Splenic, Pulmonary ... tumor embolism Septic ... Differential #Diagnosis #cardiology
Severe Influenza Checklist

Diagnostic tests 
 - Blood cultures x2 
 - Sputum gram stain & culture
Severe Influenza Checklist ... - Ferritin, liver ... function tests - Ultrasound ... lab-confirmed influenza, pulmonary ... #Management #CriticalCare
Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy - Procedure Instructions Checklist
Tracheostomy is to establish a definitive surgical opening into the
Procedure Instructions Checklist ... Bronchoscopic ± ultrasound ... Withdraw ETT above level ... #criticalcare #pulmonary ... #checklist #management