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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Diagnosis Framework ... did not yield a diagnosis ... Long-standing vs ... Epigastric/LUQ ... • Abdominal aortic
High Central Neuraxial Block - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Can occur with deliberate or accidental
Plan to ensure ... hypnosis as soon as clinical ... Consider other causes ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Intraoperative Anaphylaxis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Unexplained hypotension
• Unexplained bronchospasm (wheeze may be absent
as patient is stable ... • Plan for repeat ... feasible (Box B). ⓭ Plan ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Chronic Hypertensive Retinopathy: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Ophthalmic Artery Hypertension
Stage 1: Mild/vasoconstrictive
 • Acute and chronic vasospasm
Chronic Hypertensive ... Pathogenesis and clinical ... • Acute and chronic ... 4: Malignant ... ophthalmology #diagnosis
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... pneumonia • Chronic ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... shows a small, stable ... polyangiitis) • Malignancy
Malignant Hyperthermia Crisis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Unexplained increase in ETCO2 AND tachycardia AND increased
Malignant Hyperthermia ... hyperventilate lungs ... see Box D). ⓭ Plan ... admission to critical ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
without tonic-clonic ... anaesthetic (remember infusion ... inform immediate clinical ... ensure adequate lung ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
...initially diagnosed ... just beneath the aortic ... completely stable ... #cardiology #pocus ... #plax
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
with CTD, drugs, malignancy ... Unknown • 6-7 cases ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... Rare: pleural effusions ... organizing pneumonia, Chronic
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
- Hematoma - Stab ... patients with a long ... - Trauma - Malignancy ... loss - Saddle anesthesia ... #differential #diagnosis