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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... - Tuberculous meningitis ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Management #Treatment
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
treatment • TB meningitis ... • Pneumococcal meningitis ... reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ... • Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... #management #treatment
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... demyelination), Infectious ... bacterial/viral meningitis ... paraneoplastic syndromes ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
NINDS Diagnostic Criteria for Guillain Barre Syndrome 
Features Required for Guillain-Barré Syndrome:
 • Progressive muscle weakness
Criteria for Guillain Barre ... Required for Guillain-Barré ... Recent diphtheritic infection ... BrighamMedRes #Guillain #Barre ... #criteria #neurology
Infectious Causes of Adrenal Insufficiency
Anatomical distribution of vessels to the adrenal makes the gland prone to
Infectious Causes ... Tuberculosis, Neisseria meningitidis ... Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome ... Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr ... endocrinology #infectiousdiseases
Causes of Acute Onset Fever - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Viral:
 • Rhinovirus
 • Influenza Virus
 • Parainfluenza
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Pyelonephritis • Meningitis ... • Skin Infection ... Neuroleptic malignant syndrome ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Initiation of ART in HIV patients with Opportunistic Infections
 • Pulmonary TB and CD4 cell count
Opportunistic Infections ... • Cryptococcal Meningitis ... Opportunistic #Infections ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... response preceding infection ... #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #management #treatment ... #neurology
Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 • Focal: Simple, Complex
 • Generalized: Absence,
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... vasoconstriction syndrome ... brain injury • Infectious ... : Meningitis, Encephalitis ... #Causes #neurology
Algorithm showing a stepwise approach to the assessment and investigation of a possible neuropathy. CIDP, chronic
Algorithm showing ... GBS, Guillain-Barré ... syndrome; HNPP, ... #Diagnosis #Neurology ... Neuropathy #Peripheral #Algorithm