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Perioperative Medications - Which Medications to Hold or Continue?
Aspirin - Continue
 • Aspirin should be continued
high bleeding risk ... Risks of withdrawal ... studies revealing risk ... and bleeding risk ... Knee/hip surgeries
Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale (ACB Scale)
 
Categorical Scoring:
 •	 Possible anticholinergics include those listed with ascore
each selected medication ... Anticholinergic medications ... may increase the risk ... increase in the risk ... Cognitive #Burden #Geriatrics
Adjusted mortality risk and number-needed-to-harm directly comparing the study psychotropic medications compared to antidepressant users

Antipsychotics, Other
Adjusted mortality risk ... study psychotropic medications ... Psychotropics, and the Risk ... atypical #mortality #geriatrics
When to Evaluate for Secondary Causes of Hypertension
1. Severe or resistant HTN
2. Acute rise/lability in BP
3.
Acute rise/lability ... Age <30 w/o risk ... Hypertension #causes #differential ... #indications #diagnosis
Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis - Causative Medications 
and Level of Suspicion 

High Risk:
Antigout:
Necrolysis - Causative Medications ... Suspicion High Risk ... , piroxicam #Differential ... #Medications #DrugInduced
Drug-Induced Hypertension - Common Medications 

Corticosteroids (prednisone) 
Sympathomimetics (amphetamine, pseudoephedrine)
SNRl's (duloxetine, venlafaxine) 
Calcineurin Inhibitors (tacrolimus, cyclosporine)
Hypertension - Common Medications ... increase patients risk ... ton of different medications ... definitely weigh the risks ... #Differential #
Abbreviated Beers List of Medications to Avoid in the Elderly

The Beers List, which was updated in
Beers List of Medications ... List includes 48 medications ... unnecessarily high risk ... which certain medications ... #Geriatrics #Medications
Delirium Precipitants in the Elderly

I think of delirium like the AKI of the brain. Baseline risk
Baseline risk factors ... Precipitants #Elderly #Geriatrics ... #Diagnosis #Differential
Causes of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Congenital Anomaly / Disorder:
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Infancy (SUDI) - Differential ... 80% of SUDI • Risk ... Infancy #Infant #Differential ... #Causes #Peds #Pediatrics
The infant with tachypnea or wheeze - Clinical Conditions to Consider
 - Bronchiolitis 
 - Pneumonia
viral infections, risk ... Diagnosis #Peds #Pediatrics ... Tachypnea #Wheeze #Differential