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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... respiratory distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
– compartment syndrome ... Management: - ... weeks Urgent orthopedics ... referral: - Neurovascular ... #Referral #Orthopedics
Behcet's Syndrome - Treatment
Ulcers:
 • Treatment: Topical steroids
 • Prevention: Colchicine
 • Azathioprine for refractory disease
Arthritis:
Behcet's Syndrome ... lesions • Derm referral ... • Early ophtho referral ... #Treatment #management ... #pharmacology #
Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Intraabdominal Infection ... AAST 2021 global clinical ... intra-abdominal infections ... infectiousdiseases #management ... #pharmacology #
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
Non-inflammatory causes: • Infectious ... • Enteroviral infections ... • Herpes virus infections ... MRI lesions and clinical ... noninflammatory #differential
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Irritable bowel syndrome ... Parasitic infections ... Malabsorption syndromes ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management ... workup #diagnosis #differential
Priapism 

Secondary Causes:
Medications- intracavernosal injections, anticoagulants, PDE5 inhibitors, alpha blockers, methylphenidate, cocaine
Any hyperviscosity syndrome (SCD, leukemia,
intracavernosal injections ... hyperviscosity syndrome ... Priapism #Diagnosis #Management ... #Urology #Differential
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Monoarticular
 • Gout (Podagra, Tophi)
 • Pseudogout
 • Early
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential ... Genitourinary Infection ... Sicca) Syndrome ... JointPain #MSK #Differential ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Orthopedics
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to 8 years Clinical ... and M panel Management ... : • Nephrotic syndrome ... (Epstein-Barr syndrome ... hematology #diagnosis #management
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
Campylobacter Clinical ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... Management ... • Supportive (infection ... Campylobacter #Diagnosis #Management