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My Patient with Infective Endocarditis (IE) Has Negative Blood Cultures
 - Did they receive antibiotics prior
My Patient with Infective ... Endocarditis (IE ... Did they receive antibiotics ... #Endocarditis # ... #Diagnosis #Management
Infective endocarditis - etiology and sources of infection. 
 • Native and prosthetic 
valve endocarditis
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Infective endocarditis ... and sources of infection ... • Native and ... for TPN) and antibiotic ... #Microbiology #Diagnosis
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
• Supportive (infection ... self-limited) • Antibiotics ... Fluoroquinolones, azithromycin ... Campylobacter #Diagnosis ... #Management #Overview
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
for metastatic infection ... course • Adjust antibiotics ... metastatic foci of infection ... #checklist #criticalcare ... #diagnosis #management
Capnocytophaga Canimorsus Skin Rash

40 M presents w/ N, V, severe epigastric pain. SHx: smoker, drinks 18
fastidious gram-negative ... to meningitis, endocarditis ... the key to the diagnosis ... C. canimorsus infection ... or clindamycin Antibiotic
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Endocarditis - Overview ... and Differential Diagnosis ... aureus, Coagulase-negative ... staphylococci Culture Negative ... Treatment • IV antibiotics
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
if symptoms of infection ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... Do not measure negative ... main ones) - Antibiotics ... Checklist #Management #CriticalCare
Severe Influenza Checklist

Diagnostic tests 
 - Blood cultures x2 
 - Sputum gram stain & culture
Influenza Checklist Diagnostic ... opportunistic infection ... Antibiotics - ... Clarithromycin 500 mg BID (azithromycin ... Checklist #Management #CriticalCare