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2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A
Management of Heart Failure ... Task Force on Clinical ... and the Heart Failure ... HeartFailure #Management #CHF ... treatment #algorithm #sCHF
Shock Classification and Differential Diagnosis
SHOCK
 • MAP <65, SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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and Differential Diagnosis ... Insufficiency, Liver Failure ... Medications, Spinal Cord Injury ... Decompensated CHF ... #Types #criticalcare
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Pathogenesis and clinical ... spinal artery injury ... function below injury ... #Syndromes #diagnosis ... signs #symptoms #msk
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Insufficiency, Liver Failure ... Medications, Spinal Cord Injury ... Decompensated CHF ... #criticalcare #
Myocardial Injury Classification
Chronic myocardial injury: Chronic heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertension, CKD/ESRD
Acute nonischemic myocardial injury:
 - Primary
Myocardial Injury ... Chronic heart failure ... non-cardiac illness: Critical ... Classification #diagnosis ... #cardiology #troponemia
Shock Types and Classification
DISTRIBUTIVE 66%
 • Sepsis/SIRS, anaphylaxis, adrenal insufficiency, liver failure, toxins, spinal/neurogenic
 • Warm
insufficiency, liver failure ... CARDIOGENIC 16% • MI, CHF ... Classification #diagnosis ... #differential #criticalcare
Understanding & Treating ARDS - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

•  Timing - within one week of
- respiratory failure ... volume overload or CHF ... Acute #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Management #CriticalCare
Acute Heart Failure Exacerbation - Diagnostic Likelihood Ratios
+LR > 3.5:
 • Overall judgement of ED physician
Acute Heart Failure ... Exacerbation - Diagnostic ... Examination #chf ... #cardiology #heartfailure ... #physicalexam #diagnosis
Lumbar Central Canal Stenosis Grading 
  - Normal - No CSF effacement 
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- Normal - No CSF ... effacement of CSF ... effacement of CSF ... Classification #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #MSK
Iron Deficiency in Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

Iron deficiency (ID) in heart failure is a common comorbidity
(CHF) Iron deficiency ... (ID) in heart failure ... Exercise capacity Diagnosis ... #CHF #pharmacology ... pathophysiology #cardiology