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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... meningitis - Tuberculous ... ventilation, ARDS acute ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Overview ... drug use • Silicosis ... involvement - seeding ... Treatment: Active ... Initiating Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Overview ... drug use • Silicosis ... involvement - seeding ... Treatment: Active ... Initiating Treatment
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) Clinical Guidelines

ACLF = possibly reversible condition in those with CLD (± cirrhosis)
Acute-on-Chronic ... months without treatment ... Coagulation Failure Infections ... Hepatitis (AAH) Drug-Induced ... Cirrhosis #Hepatology #gastroenterology
IDSA - Clinical Strategy to Build an Individualized Treatment Regimen for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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Individualized Treatment ... Resistant Tuberculosis ... are contacts of infectious ... MDRTB #management #Treatment ... antimicrobials #regimens #pharmacology
Erythemas Summarized
Erythema ab igne
 • A dermatosis that results from repeated exposure to heat (fires, heating
associated with tuberculosis ... children with acute ... rash observed in acute ... multiforme • Acute ... malignancies, and drugs
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Myasthenia Gravis Overview ... - Symptomatic Treatment ... aspiration and acute ... precipitated by: Drugs ... , infection, surgery
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
ventilation of heating ... of sinus or ear infection ... illness, such as tuberculosis ... parasitic or fungal infection ... or serotonergic drugs
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Clostridioides Difficile Infection ... on ABx) → Acute ... #1 nosocomial infection ... mg PO qd - If needing ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
Sulfonamides - Antibiotics Class Overview

BACTRIM/SEPTRA (TMP/SMX) - inhibit sequential steps in Folate synthesis --> bacteriostatic

Spectrum: Wide
Antibiotics Class Overview ... including PCP PNA (drug ... choice, both for treatment ... Traveler’s diarrhea, acute ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics