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“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
investigations and treatments ... Procalcitonin <0.5 ng/mL ... Management #Pediatrics #Peds ... Febrile #Infant #StepByStep ... #Algorithm #LP
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... infection • Cough, fever ... transplantation • MCC ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... • Isolated fever
Summary of Oncologic Emergencies

Neutropenic fever:
- Fever + ANC < 500 → start cefepime ± vancomycin (if
: - Fever + ANC ... > 4 days → add fungal ... replacement Cord ... fluids (200–300 mL ... renal failure, pulmonary
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides): Valley Fever - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode of Transmission
Coccidioides): Valley Fever ... When symptomatic→ pulmonary ... meninges and spinal cord ... disease: no treatment ... management #summary #fungal
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
Cough, dyspnea, fever ... , neoplastic) TREATMENT ... steroids for severe disease ... TylerLarsenMD #COP ... diagnosis #management #pulmonary