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Ultrasound-Guided Regional Nerve Blocks in Emergency Medicine: Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Nerve Block
Uses in the Emergency Department:
Emergency Medicine: Supraclavicular ... Brachial Plexus ... Nerve Block Uses ... #supraclavicular ... #brachial #plexus
Differential Diagnosis of Wheezing
 • Extrathoracic (wheezing Is typically inspiratory): Anaphylaxis, Vocal cord pathology, Laryngeal stenosis,
Differential Diagnosis ... Intrathoracic, upper airway ... Intrathoracic, lower airway ... EricsMedicalLectures/ #Wheezing #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Causes
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
surgery related cause ... Consider potential causes ... pulmonary oedema; bronchial ... /bronchial suction ... #Pressure #Differential
Stridor - Differential Diagnosis Framework:
High-pitched, variable respiratory sound

ETIOLOGIES:
Infectious:
 • Retropharyngeal abscess
 • Acute epiglottitis
 • Peritonsillar
Stridor - Differential ... stenosis #Stridor #differential ... #diagnosis #causes ... #pulmonary #airway ... #physicalexam
Lung Findings on Physical Exam
Crackles:
 • Short, discontinuous, sounds mostly heard during inspiration
 • Caused by
collapsed distal airways ... through narrowed airways ... extra-thoracic airway ... (laryngeal or tracheal ... Findings #Pulmonary #PhysicalExam
Causes of Acute Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular
 • Myocardial Infarction*
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • CHF
Pleural
Causes of Acute ... Dyspnea - Differential ... Embolism* Lower Airway ... AECOPD Upper Airway ... #Dyspnea #SOB #Differential
Wheezing - Differential Diagnosis Framework - Not all that wheezes is asthma
Vibrations of turbulent flow against
Wheezing - Differential ... against narrowed airway ... Tracheomalacia, tracheal ... stenosis, tracheal ... AnnKumfer #Wheezing #Differential
Bronchiectasis - Permanent dilation of an airway
WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON CT?
1) Lack of tapering of
dilation of an airway ... Thickening of bronchial ... WHAT ARE COMMON CAUSES ... pulmonary #diagnosis #differential ... #causes
Hemoptysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Airways: 
 • Bronchitis
 • Bronchiectasis
 • Malignancy: Primary bronchogenic CA, Endobronchial
Hemoptysis - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework Airways ... metastatic CA, Bronchial ... #Hemoptysis #Differential ... Diagnosis #pulmonary #causes
Causes of Peripheral Weakness with Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Radiculopathy:
 • Disc
 • Spondylosis
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Causes of Peripheral ... Sensory Changes - Differential ... Plexopathy: • Brachial ... Sensory #Neurology #Differential ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes