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Upper Gastronintestinal Bleed - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Hematemesis/Melena
 - Blood in vomitus?/black, tarry stools
 - If
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... /black, tarry stools ... Pylori Portal Hypertension ... Mallory Weiss Tear ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Outpatient Hypertension Management Algorithm
Monotherapy: 
 • Thiazide/thiazide-like 
 • ACE-I (non-black patients), 
 • ARB
Outpatient Hypertension ... Management Algorithm ... • ACE-I (non-black ... #Outpatient #Hypertension ... #Management #Algorithm
High Central Neuraxial Block - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Can occur with deliberate or accidental
Central Neuraxial Block ... inform theatre team ... • Hypotension ... #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
Hypotension - Guidelines ... effects of neuraxial block ... with surgical team ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
bradycardia, conduction blocks ... immediate clinical team ... therapies to treat hypotension ... Anaesthetic #Toxicity #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Perioperative Medications - Which Medications to Hold or Continue?
Aspirin - Continue
 • Aspirin should be continued
tachycardia and hypertension ... prolonged postop hypotension ... to discuss with anesthesiology ... /surgical team to ... Knee/hip surgeries
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
Diagnosis and Management ... person-years • 50-year ... blood pressure management ... blood pressure management ... phenoxybenzamine blocks
Intraoperative Sepsis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Severe sepsis (hypotension persisting after initial fluid challenge of
Severe sepsis (hypotension ... inform theatre team ... Discuss ongoing management ... intensive care team ... anaesthesia #Sepsis #Anesthesiology
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
abnormalities (hypo- or hypertension ... Inform theatre team ... the patient is hypotensive ... Ischemia #Ischaemia #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
too often, the knee-jerk ... to effectively block ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... echocardiogram #management