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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
2.
Clinical Frailty Scale ... automatically increase the score ... Clinical #Frailty #Scale ... #CFS #Tips #Geriatrics ... #Diagnosis #Management
Cirrhosis Risk / Staging Calculators

BONACINI CIRRHOSIS DISCRIMINANT SCORE (CDS)
CHILD PUGH CLASSIFICATION OF SEVERITY OF CIRRHOSIS 

#Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis Risk / ... DISCRIMINANT SCORE ... (CDS) CHILD PUGH ... #Cirrhosis ... #ESLD #hepatology
Diagnosis and management of Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)

Chapel Hill 2012 definition: 
Necrotizing vasculitis ofmedium or small arteries
Diagnosis and management ... 1996 Prognostic Score ... Cardiomyopathy - CNS ... PolyarteritisNodosa #Rheumatology ... #Diagnosis #Management
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease algorithm.
 
For those patients with NAFLD or liver disease of unknown aetiology,
NAFLD fibrosis score ... liver disease; NFS ... NAFLD Fibrosis Score ... algorithm #Referral #Management ... #Hepatology
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Clinical Frailty Score ... #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... Clinical #Frailty #Scale ... #Score #CFS #Rockwood
Childhood Immunization Schedule: Why we immunize
 • Diphtheria Toxin -> URT inflammation causes pseudomembrane with hardened
hardened exudates -> Sore ... causes stridor -> Sore ... invade URT & via hematologic ... and hematologic ... Immunization #peds #pediatrics
Nutrition in Cirrhosis: Dos and Don’ts
Screening:
 • Patients at risk for RFH-Nutritional Prioritizing Tool
 • Low
Nutrition in Cirrhosis ... disease (Child-Pugh score ... #Nutrition #Cirrhosis ... #diet #management ... #hepatology #pathophysiology
Algorithm for Management of Head Injuries in Children
Primary survey:
 • Airway and cervical spine
 • Breathing
Algorithm for Management ... • Glasgow Coma Score ... CSF leak from nose ... #Algorithm #Management ... Injury #trama #pediatrics
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
, neutropenia, cirrhosis ... Inhalation of spores ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... throat, skin, scalp ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management