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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway Algorithm ... likelihood and clinical ... • Difficult mask ... Video-assisted laryngoscopy as ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia #CriticalCare
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist ... Phos), CBC with differential ... - Infectious workup ... (vital signs, clinical ... #Management #CriticalCare
Management of Jehovah's Witness patient in ICU 

Clarify which products may be used 
 - Discuss
Management of Jehovah's ... anticoagulants as ... Consider stress ... twitter.com/PulmCrit #Checklist ... #patient #ICU #CriticalCare
There are similarities and differences between these 3 conditions which all carry treatment implications. Each mimic
with circulating stress ... hormones that work ... #diagnosis #differential ... #algorithm #management ... #treatment #criticalcare
Fatigue and IBD Algorithm
 • 40-50% patients have fatigue despite clinical remission
 • Risk factors: BMI,
fatigue despite clinical ... Receptor (sTfR) to differentiate ... active IBD and/or stress ... report dehydration as ... #diagnosis #management
Peri-operative Hyperthermia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
If prolonged or ≥ 39 C this is a
39 C this is a clinical ... amphetamines) Toxic: • Radiologic ... #Hyperthermia #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup
Acute Altered Mental Status - Rapid Response Management

1) Ask while en route: vitals, hyper/hypoactive, POC glucose,
1) Ask while ... and stabilize: AMS ... Diagnosis and Workup ... #criticalcare # ... encephalopathy #differential
General schema for respiratory support in patients with COVID-19
Low flow nasal cannula
 • Typically set at
Titrate CPAP up as ... filter • N95 mask ... support #COVID19 #management ... #schema #criticalcare ... hypoxia #failure #algorithm
Efforts to standardize the approach to trauma have led to an algorithmic, thoughtless approach to trauma
have led to an algorithmic ... the critical diagnostic ... universal first steps ... #Management #Trauma ... BigTrauma #BeforeCT #Checklist
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
Differential Diagnosis ... infarction • Stress ... factors + oxidative stress ... defibrillator as ... #cardiology #treatment