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Evaluation of Electrical Injury in the Emergency Department 

Common Injuries by System:

CNS - Seizure, coma, spinal
MSK - Fractures ... posterior shoulder - AC ... especially with AC ... Electricity #Evaluation #Diagnosis ... #Management #Emergency
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
- Differential Diagnosis ... Framework and Management ... Features: • Triad ... perfusionrenal ... #treatment #nephrology
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
affect many organs ... injury), Coags ... LVEF, pericardial effusion ... blood retum in serial ... #management #treatment
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
diuretics, Saline infusion ... , rhabdo/crush injury ... Terbutaline 7 µg/kg SC ... #Management #Treatment ... #potassium #nephrology
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
is unknown - Many ... injury in the production ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... - shock->treatments ... before beginning treatment
Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC)

Clinical Presentation of Scleroderma Renal Crisis:
1) Acute kidney injury
2) Abrupt onset of hypertension
3)
) Acute kidney injury ... is unknown but may ... activation, ↓ perfusion ... endothelial cell injury ... #diagnosis #management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
to local skin injury ... ) • Neurologic ... Venous disease (SVC ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... #management #signs