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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
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Frailty Scale (CFS ... Terminally ill (CFS ... "vulnerable" (CFS ... Frailty #Scale #CFS ... Geriatrics #Diagnosis #Management
Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
 - 3 mos isoniazid plus rifapentine given once weekly (Preferred)
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Infection - 3 mos ... Preferred) - 4 mos ... Preferred) - 3 mos ... Preferred) - 6 mos ... Tuberculosis #treatment #management
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MD) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
myelo (marrow) -dys- (abnormal) -plastic (shape) = funny-shaped cells
Diagnosis and Management ... acute leukemia Management ... Myelodysplastic #Syndrome #MDS ... #Diagnosis #Management
Diagnosis and management of Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)

Chapel Hill 2012 definition: 
Necrotizing vasculitis ofmedium or small arteries
Diagnosis and management ... associated with ANCA FFS ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management
Guide to systemic mastocytosis

Criteria for diagnosis: at least 1 major and 1 minor or 3 minor
infiltrates of MC (2 15 MCs ... • >25% of all MCs ... codon 816 • MCs ... mediator release • MCs ... meeting criteria for MDS
Stages in the development of HF and recommended therapy by stage. ACEI indicates angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor;
ventricular hypertrophy; MCS ... ACCAHA #Algorithm #Management
Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) vs. Kawasaki Disease
CDC Case Definition for MIS-C;
 • < 21
Syndrome in Children (MIS-C ... Definition for MIS-C
Procalcitonin Guided Antibiotics in Sepsis

Efficacy and Safety of Procalcitonin Guidance in Patients With Suspected or Confirmed
Nicholas Zimick, MD, MS ... VisualAbstract #EBM #Management
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
Multiple Sclerosis (MS ... nearly 3:1 • MS ... Fulminant Forms of MS ... clinically definite MS ... sclerosis #diagnosis #management
Important Respiratory Distress Pearls

#diagnosis #respiratory #distress #NRDS #RDS #TTN #MAS #neonatal #pediatric #adult #respiratory #adverse #effects
NRDS #RDS #TTN #MAS