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Small Bowel Bleeding - Scoping Summary
 • General Principles of Management
 • Optimal Timing for Capsule
Small Bowel Bleeding ... Endoscopy • Bowel Prep ... #SmallBowel #Bleeding ... Summary #Endoscopy #diagnosis ... #management #algorithm
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Preop creatinine ... Preop creatinine ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... - what is the bleeding ... select patients #Preop
Perioperative Management of DOACs
Problem:
 ✖ Each year approximately 250,000 patients on chronic anticoagulation in North America
interruption for at ... and procedural bleeding ... risk ✔ Procedures ... with a very low bleeding ... #pharmacology #preop
Perioperative Medications - Which Medications to Hold or Continue?
Aspirin - Continue
 • Aspirin should be continued
has a very high bleeding ... and bleeding risk ... /hip surgeries are ... high bleeding risk ... Hold #Continue #preop
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
Differential Diagnosis ... • Pre-existing ... Period • Breast-feeding ... should be done on diagnosis ... Cardiomyopathy #diagnosis
UCSF COVID-19 Adult Clinical Evaluation Guide - Updated April 10 2020

Clinical Presentation
• Fever: hospitalized pts but
low in <35% • AST ... 7-28% -> Incr risk ... UCSF COVID-19 ID ... Evaluation #Guide #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #Protocol
Approach to Tracheostomy Emergencies - OnePager Summary
COMPONENTS OF A TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE:
 • Obturator - inserted into
inner diameter (ID ... The ID and OD sizes ... OBSTRUCTION, and BLEEDING ... re-insertion due to risk ... #Emergencies #diagnosis
Polycythemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Polycythemia itself isn’t a diagnosis. Like many things, it is a condition
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Polycythemia ... circulation = risk ... : neuro, heme (bleeding ... #Algorithm #workup
HBV Reactivation Risk in IBD on Immunosuppression Algorithm
Risk of Reactivation
High Risk: >10% Risk
 • HBsAg+ /
Immunosuppression Algorithm ... Start before or at ... the latest at the ... after d/c PPx Algorithm ... #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Histoplasmosis Diagnosis ... MUCORMYCOSIS • Risk ... blood vessels are ... risk: AIDS, neutropenia ... antigen • India ink prep