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Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
strategy. ❼ If clinically ... Plan definitive management ... a dramatic clinical ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Algorithm for the Evaluation and Management of Sickle Cell Crises
Clinical Manifestations and Management

#Diagnosis #Management #Hematology #SickleCell
Algorithm for the ... of Sickle Cell Crises ... Clinical Manifestations ... #Hematology #SickleCell ... Manifestations #Workup #Algorithm
Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway Algorithm ... likelihood and clinical ... Consider the relative ... Difficult #airway #algorithm ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
over-vigorous attempts at lung ... Consider other causes ... has developed negative-pressure ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Causes of Polycythemia (Erythrocytosis) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Relative - Normal RBC Mass / Decreased Plasma Volume
Causes of Polycythemia ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Relative - Normal ... Abnormal Abdominal Ultrasound ... #Causes #Hematology
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
Guidelines for Crises ... inform immediate clinical ... ensure adequate lung ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
• Initial Management ... Syndrome • Syndrome caused ... globules in the lung ... progresses to anaesthesia ... gram positive and negative
Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexplained increase in ETCO2 AND tachycardia AND increased
other, more common causes ... hyperventilate lungs ... Plan admission to critical ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Management of patients with known or suspected malignant pleural effusion (MPE) - An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical
Management of patients ... Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical ... goals of assessing lung ... Effusions #MPE #Algorithm ... #Management #ATS
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
= nonspecific (nausea ... Antithrombin Ill • Ultrasound ... Maternal Support - Critical ... Liver #Pregnancy #hepatology ... obgyn #diagnosis #management