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Simplified Airway Management Algorithm
Admittedly sacrificing some detail, this simplified airway management algorithm highlights the critical steps,
Management Algorithm ... management algorithm ... highlights the critical ... #Algorithm #Simplified ... Simple #Management #CriticalCare
Setting up Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) on an LTV Ventilator

#Ventilator #Criticalcare #Clinical #Airway #EMS #Prehospital
Setting up Continuous ... Positive Airway ... #Ventilator #Criticalcare ... #Clinical #Airway
Setting up AC and SIMV on an LTV

#Ventilator #Criticalcare #Clinical #Airway
Setting up AC and ... #Ventilator #Criticalcare ... #Clinical #Airway
Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... Algorithm 1. ... likelihood and clinical ... #algorithm #Anesthesiology ... #Anesthesia #CriticalCare
Adrenal Insufficiency Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Clinical suspicion: Weakness, fatigue, nausea, musculoskeletal pain, dizziness, volume depletion, abdominal pain,
Insufficiency Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Clinical suspicion ... , hypoglycemia Testing ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Hypoglycemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Fasting Hypoglycemia:
 • Excess Insulin
 • Medications (e.g. Insulin Secretagogues, ß-Adrenergic Antagonists,
Hypoglycemia - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Other Causes: • Critical ... Hypoglycemia #LowGlucose #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Viral Infection Clinical ... reticularis • Raynaud ... Positive Coombs testing ... post infectious setting ... younger pts) Differential
Approach to Tracheostomy Emergencies - OnePager Summary
COMPONENTS OF A TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE:
 • Obturator - inserted into
enables sustained airway ... prevents speech & eating ... Emergencies #diagnosis #differential ... management #pulmonary #criticalcare ... #airway #anatomy
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
of a difficult airway ... - Oral cavity/Airway ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... surgery Stress Testing
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
function tests algorithm ... /or suspicious clinical ... decision for repeat testing ... LFTs #Abnormal #Algorithm ... Liver #Enzymes #Differential