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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Diagnosis: • hemolytic ... Differential Diagnosis ... intravascular hemolysis on rewarming ... red-brown urine • Diagnostic ... anemia #hematology #diagnosis
Cryoglobulinemia Summary

Cryoglobulins:
 • Cryoglobulins are Igs in the serum that precipitate in vitro at temperatures below
redissolve on rewarming ... Labs/Diagnosis: ... Cryoglobulins #diagnosis
Rewarming Methods in Hypothermia
 • Passive rewarming - Requires adequate patient physiologic mechanisms. Inadequate for more
Rewarming Methods ... Hypothermia • Passive rewarming ... Active external rewarming ... cardiac arrest #Rewarming
Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest Management
"Not dead until 32° and dead"
1) Start ACLS + Rewarming
2) Should this code
) Start ACLS + Rewarming ... with invasive rewarming ... resuscitation #rewarming
High Quality Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) Post Cardiac Arrest
 - timing
 - target temperature
 - temperature
duration of cooling/rewarming
Eosinophils swarming a nematode on Microscopy - Time Lapse

#Eosinophils #nematode #clinical #video #Microscopy #microbiology #TimeLapse
Eosinophils swarming
Osborn (J Wave)

Etiology 
• Hypothermia (below 320C / SOOF) 
• Normal variant 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Neurological
resolves with warming ... Osborn #JWave #Diagnosis
Differentiating Features Between Central and Peripheral Cyanosis

Mechanism - Arterial destauration
Sites - Skin, mucous membrane of oral
- Present On warming ... erythrocytosis - Absent On warming
Algorithm for the diagnostic evaluation of dizziness. (HINTS = head-impulse, nystagmus, test of skew.)
Questions regarding the
Algorithm for the diagnostic ... Questions regarding ... confirm a probable diagnosis ... A diagnostic algorithm ... #Diagnosis #Dizzy
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Patient Decision Aid

Page showing options, presenting probabilities, using statistics, and highlighting
unique framing regarding ... This reframing was