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Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
endocarditis w/ septic pulmonary ... joints, spleen, brain ... • Persistent fever ... Endocarditis #checklist #criticalcare ... #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... • Sinusitis • Brain ... • Isolated fever
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
with presence of pulmonary ... & Dry) is the treatment ... #algorithm #management ... #cardiology #treatment ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
our friends from Cardiology ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... #management #clinical ... #criticalcare # ... foamed #treatment
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Electrolyte imbalance • Fever ... Pheochromocytoma • Pulmonary ... Hyperthyroidism • Anemia Psychiatric ... due to decreased brain ... #Palpitations #Cardiology
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
or family - Ever ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... one post op Cardiology ... stratification #diagnosis
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides): Valley Fever - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode of Transmission
Coccidioides): Valley Fever ... periods after rain ... disseminated disease • Clinical ... prostate • Diagnosis ... disease: no treatment
Mitral valve regurgitation is the heart’s version of a plot twist — just when you think
Clinically, it’s ... that glorious pulmonary ... Diagnosis by echocardiography ... detective story, and treatment ... unpredictable, and never
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
(@MarkRamzyDO, EM ... Hamilton, MD (EM ... This patient’s clinical ... exam findings and clinical ... pattern that your brain
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
Diagnosis? ... of prior silent pulmonary ... Standard treatment ... meningitis #T2 #MRI #Brain ... #clinical #radiology