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Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
Leg Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Trauma • Crush injury ... #pain #differential ... #diagnosis #lower
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Generalized: • Chills ... nodes • Roth’s spots ... Septic Emboli Cause Injury ... Marantic (NTBE) Differential ... Diagnosis?
 The following #reflexes are routinely tested, and the response elicited is graded from zero to
particular attention paid ... or spinal root injury ... or bed with the legs ... The Achilles reflex ... Stroke the skin
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Heat Stroke - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Cramps: • Muscle pain ... or spasm - legs ... blisters on the skin
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
Glaucoma—acute angle ... - History of pain ... - Traumatic injury ... signs #symptoms #differential ... #emergency #diagnosis
Common Dermatological Conditions - Distribution and Morphology
 • Acne vulgaris - Face, upper back, chest -
Stasis dermatitis - Ankles ... , lower legs over ... site of previous injury ... dermatology #rash #differential ... #diagnosis #skin
Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Score (COWS)

Resting Pulse Rate: Record beats per minute after patient is sitting or
extraneous movement of legs ... patient was having pain ... • 0 - skin is ... piloerrection of skin ... Buprenorphine #Score #Diagnosis
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
and Differential ... Generalized: Chills ... nodes • Roth’s spots ... Septic emboli cause injury ... #Differential #
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
3rd Decade Skin ... permanent alopecia Differential ... Arthritis: • Joint pain ... Seizures • Strokes Skin ... • Libman-Sacks endocarditis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
muscle aches, joint pain ... , chest pain • ... osteomyelitis or skin ... Inhalation of spores ... arthritis, and endocarditis