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Important Respiratory Distress Pearls

#diagnosis #respiratory #distress #NRDS #RDS #TTN #MAS #neonatal #pediatric #adult #respiratory #adverse #effects
Distress Pearls #diagnosis ... NRDS #RDS #TTN #MAS ... neonatal #pediatric #adult ... adverse #effects #pulmonary
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's ... Disease Clinical ... Complications: MAS ... hepatitis • Pulmonary ... #management #treatment
Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
Management Summary Clinical ... osteomyelitis, trauma ... Treatment: admission ... washout • Healthy Adults ... pediatrics but NOT adults
Light's Criteria

Medical Nugget on Light's Criteria for diagnosis of Exudative Pleural Effusion in adults and children.
Light's Criteria for diagnosis ... Pleural Effusion in adults ... InternalMedicine #Pediatrics #Diagnosis ... differential #ddxof #pulmonary ... im #radiology #clinical
Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
inoculation due to trauma ... Diagnosis Treatment ... #Microbiology #diagnosis ... #treatment #pulmonary
Fat Embolism Syndrome
Trauma to the long bone or pelvis accounts for —9096 of cases. The diagnosis
Embolism Syndrome Trauma ... The diagnosis is ... masked in the trauma ... onset widespread pulmonary ... FES is a clinical
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
arthritis (sJIA) • Adult-onset ... fever syndromes Clinical ... Fever is the main clinical ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids ... Activation #Syndrome #Diagnosis
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
most common) Clinical ... , hemoptysis Treatment ... Lung #Abscess #Diagnosis ... #Pulmonary #Clinical
Adult Onset Still's Disease
Systemic inflammation with urticarial rash.
Rash: 
 • Nonpruritic, evanescent (correlates with time of
Adult Onset Still's ... mL Gf consider MAS ... Treatment - Mild ... : NSAIDS Treatment ... anti-lL6R, anti-ILI #Adult
Approach to Undifferentiated Shock - OnePager Summary
Shock occurs when there is inadequate blood flow (CO) &
essential to determine treatment ... syndrome etc), Trauma ... Cardiac Tamponade, Pulmonary ... Obstruction (HOCM, critical ... Undifferentiated #Shock #diagnosis