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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
(Cold-induced symptoms ... Hemoglobinuria • Symptoms ... younger pts) Differential ... (RBCs) at cold temperatures ... rewarming • Symptoms
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
Lower motor neuron symptoms ... Upper motor neuron symptoms ... Loss of pain and temperature ... Loss of pain and temperature ... syndromes #lesions #differential
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Heat Stroke - Differential ... Syncope • Signs/Symptoms ... High body temperatures ... heat #illness #differential
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
Chest Pain Differential By Symptom Characteristics
- Dr. Andrew Perry https://twitter.com/Perrycardium

#ChestPain #Differential #Symptoms #Characteristics #Diagnosis
Chest Pain Differential ... By Symptom Characteristics ... #ChestPain #Differential ... #Symptoms #Characteristics
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 ... value in pulse-temperature ... help hone your differential ... Dissociation #diagnosis #differential
High Quality Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) Post Cardiac Arrest
 - timing
 - target temperature
 - temperature
Quality Targeted Temperature ... timing - target temperature ... - temperature ... #Targeted #Temperature
Faget Sign - Pulse-Temperature Dissociation
Causes of Relative Bradycardia
 • Infectious Causes: Legionella, Psittacosis, Q fever, Typhoid
Faget Sign - Pulse-Temperature ... #Sign #Pulse #Temperature ... #bradycardia #differential
Differentiating Features Between Central and Peripheral Cyanosis

Mechanism - Arterial destauration
Sites - Skin, mucous membrane of oral
of oral cavity Temperature ... skin involved Temperature ... Comparison #Signs #Symptoms
Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve 

Left Shift - decreased unloading of O2 at tissue level (i.e.  increased
alkalosis) - decr temperature ... acidosis) - incr temperature ... #Right #Shift #Differential