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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
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
Checklist for Treatment of Delirium in the ICU 

Remove causative factors 
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Exclude hypoglycemia if
Checklist for Treatment ... if uncontrolled pain ... consider empiric treatment ... sleeping, administer pharmacologic ... #MICU #CriticalCare
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
& Dry) is the treatment ... then be excreted using ... #table #foamed ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare ... icu #clinical #pharmacology
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
disease) - Forced ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... Drugs to avoid (main ... ones) - Antibiotics ... Checklist #Management #CriticalCare
Acute Pancreatitis - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Epigastric abdominal pain (90%, characteristically
Epigastric abdominal pain ... ileus), consider pain-dose ... • Antibiotics ... cholecystectomy during ... #Management #Treatment
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
This becomes a flawed ... Even during the ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... management #clinical #criticalcare ... #foamed #treatment
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
The crusade against “Ab”Normal Saline continues.  This is a non-physiologic fluid that can harm our
#foamed #criticalcare ... #management #diagnosis ... #treatment #pharmacology
Diagnosis and Management of Achalasia - ACG Guidelines

Who to suspect?
 • Patients presenting with progressive dysphagia
Diagnosis and Management ... heart burn, chest pain ... • Patients diagnosed ... Endoscopy to look for foam ... Botulinum toxin • Pharmacologic