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Pearls for Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

First-line pharmacotherapies for moderate to severe AUD include naltrexone and
Pearls for Treatment ... include abdominal pain ... opiates Second-line ... UseDisorder #Management #Treatment ... #Medications #Pharmacology
Checklist for Treatment of Delirium in the ICU 

Remove causative factors 
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Exclude hypoglycemia if
Checklist for Treatment ... if uncontrolled pain ... sleeping, administer pharmacologic ... #Delirium #Checklist ... #MICU #CriticalCare
Boxer's Fracture - ED Management
Be sure to assess for wounds in patients with fractures of the
treatment. ... ED Management: Pain ... reduce if needed (using ... open wound, must update ... Radiology #XRay #Diagnosis
Acute Pancreatitis - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Epigastric abdominal pain (90%, characteristically
Epigastric abdominal pain ... low-fat (as safe as CLD ... • Antibiotics ... cholecystectomy during ... #Management #Treatment
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... Drugs to avoid (main ... ones) - Antibiotics ... #Management #CriticalCare
Medications that Can Cause False Positives on Drug Tests

Urine drug screens (UDSs) are simple to use,
• Cannabidiol (CBD ... efavirenz (Sustiva) • Pain ... opiates false positives ... : • Quinolone antibiotics ... #differential #diagnosis
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
& Dry) is the treatment ... then be excreted using ... & Dry” is the treatment ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare ... icu #clinical #pharmacology
Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Score (COWS)

Resting Pulse Rate: Record beats per minute after patient is sitting or
patient was having pain ... attributed to opiate ... Hospital Opioid Use Treatment ... SHOUT) #COWS #Opiate ... Buprenorphine #Score #Diagnosis
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
Even during the ... patients with CAD ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... management #clinical #criticalcare ... #foamed #treatment
Summary of Oncologic Emergencies

Neutropenic fever:
- Fever + ANC < 500 → start cefepime ± vancomycin (if
abdomen if abdominal pain ... ANC rising > 500 ... → may stop antibiotics ... APL (~25 %) during ... Oncology #HemeOnc #Diagnosis