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Modified Centor Criteria for Likelihood of Bacterial Infection In Sore throat #Diagnosis #Management #EM #IM #Centor
Likelihood of Bacterial Infection ... In Sore throat #Diagnosis ... #Management #EM ... #IM #Centor #Criteria
Severe Asthma Algorithm - Management of Life-Threatening Asthma in the Emergency Department
Step One
1. Nebulized Albuterol
2. Nebulized
Asthma Algorithm - Management ... Epinephrine 0.5 mg IM ... Diagnostics: Chest ... rhythm or cardiac ischemia ... #Emergency #Management
Differential Diagnosis of Hypoglycemia
Evaluation of Hypoglycemia
Patients with known diabetes who are not systemically ill and can
Differential Diagnosis ... - LFT - EtOH - Infectious ... blood cultures - ECG ... insulin antibodies #Diagnosis ... #EM #IM #Hypoglycemia
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Visceral and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in HIV-AIDS
Treating Visceral Leishmaniasis - Preferred Therapy:
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., 4 mg/kg on days ... IV or IM daily ... Prevention #Treatment #management ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing Human Papillomavirus Infections and Cervical Cancer Screening for Women with in HIV-AIDS
Recommendations
or been newly diagnosed ... following initial diagnosis ... 6.11.16,18,31,33,45,52,58) 0.5mL IM ... Prevention #Treatment #management ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Deficiency
Etiology:
 • Vit B12 - aka cobalamin. Present in foods derived from animal
hypoxia and organ ischemia ... , can consider IM ... consider other diagnosis ... Cobalamin #Deficiency #diagnosis ... #management #nutrition
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
to a preceding infection ... • Most common infection ... Electrodiagnostic studies (Ex EMG ... Hospital of Baltimore IM ... #management #neurology
Bradycardia - Differential Diagnosis 
 • Cardiac disease: Myocardial ischemia / infarction, Myocarditis, Congenital disorders, Cardiomyopathies,
- Differential Diagnosis ... disease: Myocardial ischemia ... Cushing response) • Infections ... Hospital of Baltimore IM ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Esophageal Necrosis
Etiology:
 - Ischemia and Gastric Outlet Obstruction with GERD may be inciting events
 - Associated
Necrosis Etiology: - Ischemia ... antibiotic use, infections ... retrosternal chest pain Diagnosis ... Hospital of Baltimore IM ... #management #gastroenterology
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Infectious: • Pre-existing ... devices (CIED) Non-Infectious ... Early embolic/ischemic ... ↑ ESR, CRP • EKG ... #management #cardiology