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Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
heat stress • Criteria ... High body temperatures ... • Criteria: ... Hyperventilation, Dizziness, Nausea ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis (AGEP)

AGEP is largely a clinical diagnosis based on classical skin findings in
Causes? ... patients, AGEP is caused ... Diagnostic Criteria ... - Fever onset (temperature ... often are febrile (temperature
Faget's Sign & Liebermeister's Rule
Pulse-Temperature Dissociation
EVERY 1 F RISE IN TEMPERATURE -> HR INCREASES 8-10 BPM
INFECTIOUS
Liebermeister's Rule Pulse-Temperature ... EVERY 1 F RISE IN TEMPERATURE ... BPM INFECTIOUS CAUSES ... • Fever OTHER CAUSES ... #differential #causes
Growth Patterns - Molds, Yeasts and Dimorphic 
 • Mold - Arial mycelia and vegitative mycelia
environmental and body temperature ... environmental and body temperature ... environmental temperatures ... growth at both body temperature
Faget Sign - Pulse-Temperature Dissociation
Causes of Relative Bradycardia
 • Infectious Causes: Legionella, Psittacosis, Q fever, Typhoid
Faget Sign - Pulse-Temperature ... Dissociation Causes ... • Infectious Causes ... Non-Infectious Causes ... #Sign #Pulse #Temperature
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
: • 1400 new cases ... • 75-90% of cases ... Bladder dysfunction, temperature ... Diagnostic Criteria ... • Infectious causes
High Quality Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) Post Cardiac Arrest
 - timing
 - target temperature
 - temperature
Quality Targeted Temperature ... timing - target temperature ... - temperature ... #Targeted #Temperature
St Paul's Early Discharge Rule
 
ONE HOUR after naloxone administration, patients can be safely discharged if
they meet ALL SIX criteria ... Have a normal temperature ... Discharge #Rule #Criteria
AEIOU TIPS - Mnemonic for Causes of Altered Mental Status
A - Alcohol, Acidosis, Ammonia, Arrhythmia
E -
- Mnemonic for Causes ... U - Uremia T - Temperature ... AEIOU #Mnemonic #Causes
Drugs Causing Acute Pancreatitis

Class Ia: The medications in which there was a rechallenge and other causes
rechallenge and other causes ... out other common causes ... Class II: Cases ... and atleast4 case ... #Pancreatitis #Causes