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IDSA Recommendations for empirical antimicrobial therapy for purulent meningitis based on patient age and specific predisposing
age and specific predisposing ... #Pharmacology #Management
Evaluation of a child with a first urinary tract infection.

Why important? 
 - Up to half
renal failure Predisposing ... Assessment #Diagnosis #Mangaement
High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)
Severe AMS with altered mental status, ataxia, and other neurological manifestations such
of AMS/HACE: • Predisposing ... HACE #diagnosis #management
Relative Risk of Various Predisoosing Conditions for Infective Endocarditis 
High Risk:
 - Prosthetic valves 
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Risk of Various Predisoosing ... #Differential #Predisposing
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
presenting illness, and predisposing ... #diagnosis #management
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
presenting illness, and predisposing ... echocardiogram #management
Endocarditis - Duke Criteria - Major and Minor

MAJOR CRITERIA: 
 - Persistently +ve blood culture for
CRITERIA - Predisposing
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
Endocarditis (NBTE): • Predisposing ... Endocarditis: • Predisposing
Upper Urinary Tract infection (UUTI): Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Predisposing Factors:
 - Immunocompromised, Diabetes,
 - Elderly, Female
Clinical Findings Predisposing
Lower Urinary Tract Infection: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

- Predisposing Factors:  Immunocompromised state, diabetes, elderly, female
Findings - Predisposing