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IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
and Treating Chagas ... Clinical Disease ... duration same as ... #Treatment #management ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Clinic, Home, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements - Strengths and Weaknesses
(via https://twitter.com/JACCJournals/status/1088104323354185730 )

Clinic Measurements:
• BP measured
Only method that has ... used to guide treatment ... • Less precise as ... Home #Ambulatory #Management ... #PrimaryCare #Comparison
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis

Stress ulcerations are common in ICU patients and may lead to hemorrhage if not
prophylaxis for primary prevention ... ulceration or treatment ... ulceration is defined as ... Risk Factors • Clinical ... #criticalcare #pharmacology
Adult Vancomycin Guidelines
The information below provides general dosing guidelines for vancomycin. A maintenance regimen of 15-20
There is no clinical ... measured and serve as ... impairment requires changes ... #Management #Pharmacology ... Vancomycin #Dosing #Loading
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
emphasis placed on prevention ... then placed on prevention ... differential #algorithm #management ... #cardiology #treatment ... #pharmacology
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
Clinical • Under-recognized ... • Account for changes ... months before 1° prevention ... defibrillator as ... #cardiology #treatment
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Diagnosis and Management ... poor nutrition Clinical ... mucocutaneous changes ... nonimmune hemolysis MSK ... vasculitis Treatment
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the right side as ... not be an issue as ... echocardiogram #management ... #clinical #criticalcare ... #foamed #treatment
The crusade against “Ab”Normal Saline continues.  This is a non-physiologic fluid that can harm our
whose positive charges ... whose positive charges ... #criticalcare #management ... #diagnosis #treatment ... #pharmacology #
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Cryptococcosis in HIV-AIDS
Treatment for cryptococcosis consists of 3 phases: induction,
in HIV-AIDS Treatment ... therapy (defined as ... substantial clinical ... #Treatment #management ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology