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Understanding & Treating ARDS - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

•  Timing - within one week of
Understanding & Treating ARDS ... - respiratory failure ... volume overload or CHF ... Acute #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Management #CriticalCare
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Dehydration • Heart failure ... syndrome) • Liver failure ... tubular necrosis (causes ... Classification #diagnosis ... #nephrology
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... AKI ) - Prerenal ... perfusion: • Cardiac failure ... /phimosis #Diagnosis ... Prerenal #Postrenal #Failure
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
inflammatory lung injury ... overload with heart failure ... there is no clear cause ... Summary #CheatSheet #Diagnosis ... #Management #CriticalCare
Acute Kidney Injury - Differential Diagnosis Framework
PRERENAL:
 - Intrarenal vasoconstriction-hemodynamically mediated
 - Systemic vasodilation
 - Volume
Acute Kidney Injury ... Diuretics if heart failure ... treating underlying cause ... Acute #Kidney #Injury ... #AKI #Differential
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Common causes of ... Acute Kidney Injury ... AKI - Differential ... • Cardiac failure ... #nephrology
Causes of Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH - Euvolemic; no physiologic stimulus to
Causes of Hyponatremia ... Congestive heart failure ... • Reduced GFR, AKI ... /CRF Hormonal changes ... #Hyponatremia #Nephrology
Causes of Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Syndrome of Inappropriate ADH - Euvolemic; no physiologic stimulus to
Causes of Hyponatremia ... Congestive heart failure ... • Reduced GFR, AKI ... /CRF Hormonal changes ... #Hyponatremia #Nephrology
Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure
Pathophysiology:
Chronic heart failure leads to an increase in inflammatory cytokines → Inflammation
Deficiency in Heart Failure ... Chronic heart failure ... → Inflammation causes ... iron #deficiency #CHF ... #management #cardiology
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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Insufficiency, Liver Failure ... Medications, Spinal Cord Injury ... Decompensated CHF ... #criticalcare # ... algorithm #treatment #management