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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
, inflammatory lung ... leading to increased pulmonary ... permeability, lung ... consistent with pulmonary ... #CriticalCare
In ARDS, we know that the lungs are so diffusely injured that the remaining total area
In ARDS, we know ... realize that in ARDS ... pathophysiology #diagnosis #management ... #ards #foamed # ... criticalcare #treatment
Berlin Criteria for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) 
- Respiratory symptoms must have begun within one
consistent with pulmonary ... lobar collapse, lung ... collapse, or pulmonary ... the hypoxemia defines ... Criteria #Diagnosis #CriticalCare
Interventional bronchoscopic and surgical treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Overview of various therapies used
bronchoscopic and surgical treatments ... chronic obstructive pulmonary ... outcomes or comparison ... to lung volume ... #Management #AdvancedCOPD
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary ... Bronchospasm, Pulmonary ... (JVP, edema), Lung ... POCUS (B-lines, lung ... #treatment #criticalcare
Checklist for Treatment of Delirium in the ICU 

Remove causative factors 
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Exclude hypoglycemia if
Checklist for Treatment ... unnecessary invasive devices ... #Delirium #Checklist ... #Management #Treatment ... #MICU #CriticalCare
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Cardiogenic Shock - Management ... Checklist Evaluation ... 1 — Treat the lungs ... Revascularization, treatment ... Organ failure — device
Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Positive airway pressure therapy
   → Positive pharyngeal transmural pressure
Treatment of Obstructive ... end-expiratory lung ... Mandibular advancement devices ... Obstructive #SleepApnea #Treatment ... #management #pulmonary
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
yeast • At risk: AIDS ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs ... Intravascular device ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
Amiodarone Induced Lung ... starting amiodarone treatment ... organizing pneumonia, ARDS ... macrophages Treatment ... #diagnosis #management