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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
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help you use the Clinical ... Frailty Scale ( ... automatically increase the score ... Dementia doesn't ... #Diagnosis #Management
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is commonly used as a screening tool to detect dementia. However,
tool to detect dementia ... is a 30-point screening ... for orientation, memory ... #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... #Score #Assessment
Burch-Wartofsky Point Scale for Diagnosis of Thyroid Storm
 • Thermoregulatory Dysfunction
    - Temperature
Burch-Wartofsky Point ... Scale for Diagnosis ... Dysfunction (0-20) • CNS ... History (0-10) Scores ... #endocrinology
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Frailty Score ... recover even from a minor ... #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... #Scale #Score # ... CFS #Rockwood
Lyme Disease - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lyme Disease Epidemiology:
- Spirochete
- Reservoir: small mammals & birds
- Transmitted
and Management ... Lyme Disease Clinical ... stiff neck - Sore ... Large joints - Joint ... LP-CSF: lymphocytic
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... muscle aches, joint ... fungal stain of clinical ... throat, skin, scalp ... #Management #Infections
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Sjogren's Syndrome Diagnosis ... biopsy • Ocular examination ... RTA, TYPE I RTA Diagnosis ... salivary ducts Clinical ... #Management