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Ramsay Hunt Syndrome - Herpes Zoster Oticus 
Triad:
1. Ipsilateral facial paralysis 
2. Ear pain 
3. Vesicles
Ramsay Hunt Syndrome ... Complications • Aseptic meningitis ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... • Stroke syndromes ... #RamsayHunt #Syndrome
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
treatment • TB meningitis ... • Pneumococcal meningitis ... reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ... • Eosinophilic meningitis ... • Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Bacterial meningitis ... - Tuberculous meningitis ... respiratory distress syndrome
Important Causes of Diplopia 
TIER 1-CRITICAL
Basilar artery thrombosis, Botulism, Basilar meningitis, Aneurysmn
TIER 2-EMERGENT:
Vertebral dissection, Myasthenia gravis,
Botulism, Basilar meningitis ... , Orbital apex syndrome ... Miller-Fisher syndrome
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
BEE Syndromes - ... Carcinomatous meningitis ... recessive—Usher syndrome ... MS • Other • Syndromes ... aura #BEE #Syndromes
Dizziness - Central and Peripheral Causes - Differential Diagnosis
Central Causes:
 • Cerebrovascular:  vertebrobasilar, TIA, Wallenburg,
Inflammation: Meningitis ... oticus (Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... canal dehiscence syndrome ... • Cogan's syndrome
Fever and Rash - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 • Viral: Measles, Infectious Mono (EBV, CMV), Acute HIV,
Meningococcal meningitis ... diseases, Toxic shock syndrome ... , DRESS, Sweet syndrome
Causes of Pediatric Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Infantile:
 • Benign Focal Epilepsy of Infancy
 • West
Infancy • West Syndrome ... • Dravet Syndrome ... Lennox Gastaut Syndrome ... Panayiotopoulas Syndrome ... • Sepsis • Meningitis
Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 • Focal: Simple, Complex
 • Generalized: Absence,
vasoconstriction syndrome ... • Infectious: Meningitis
Categories of disease to consider for eosinophilic meningitis:
-Multicellular parasites (worms and flukes)
-Fungal: Cocci
-Atypical bacterial/mycobacterial: TB, syphilis,
for eosinophilic meningitis ... Hypereosinophilic syndrome ... #Eosinophilia #Meningitis