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POCUS Stewardship
Right Indication - Right Interpretation -Right Integration
Indication → Pre-test Probability → Spectrum of Disease →
Ratio Step 1: Clinical ... Indication Identify an ... with a focused clinical ... #ultrasound #management ... #diagnosis
Our approach to the diagnosis and initial management of patients with suspected HIT. Our approach is
and initial management ... HIT laboratory tests ... probability of HIT in an ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Hematology #HIT
Fluid Analysis 
A systematic approach to analysis of the fluid in conjunction with the clinical presentation
conjunction with the clinical ... etiology, narrow the differential ... diagnoses, & design ... a management plan ... infectious disease tests
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Plts ↓50% (nadir
: • Clinical Suspicion ... approach for post-test ... : Confirmatory test ... ) • H/o HIT: Can ... #Hematology #HemeOnc
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Behcet disease) Differential ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
vomiting, abdominal pain ... infiltration) Differential ... Diagnosis: Viral ... Maternal Support - Critical ... Liver #Pregnancy #hepatology
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Viral Infection Clinical ... younger pts) Differential ... chills, flank pain ... test #cold # ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
life-threatening Differential ... myasthenia Diagnosis ... Bedside: ice pack test ... /Edrophonium test ... #management #neurology
IgG4-Related Disease
Clinical history:  Man, 60 years, multiorgan involvement, unique or multiple inflammatory pseudotumor
4 phenotypes:
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Related Disease Clinical ... history: Man, ... specific laboratory tests ... #management #phenotypes ... workup #treatment #rheumatology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... very remarkable w/differential ... the “Chewing gum test ... them, but urgent rheumatology ... #Management