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Navigating a Rapid Response Team (RRT)

Assert Leadership:
 • Stand at foot of bed
 • Introduce yourself
RRT leader • Ask ... CXR Repeatedly ... Orders placed, treatments ... Response #Team #RRT #Management ... #treatment #criticalcare
COVID-19 - A Seattle Intensivist's One-Page Cheat-Sheet on COVID-19 v2.7 Updated March 26 2020

(v2.7) incorporating newer
10% GI symptoms Imaging ... • CXR: hazy bilateral ... Cheatsheet #Diagnosis #Management ... #Coronavirus #CriticalCare ... GrepMed Recommended Text
Admitting in the ICU - Checklist
VITALS: If bad, stop and go see the patient immediately; you
IMAGING: Always ... esp in work-up/management ... get an EKG and CXR ... Urine Pregnancy Test ... diagnosis #workup #criticalcare
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Bedside: ice pack test ... /Edrophonium test ... Imaging - CT Chest ... immunologic assay - MuSK ... Gravis #diagnosis #management
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
Imaging and more ... importantly, bedside ultrasound ... differential #algorithm #management ... #cardiology #treatment ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Liver function tests ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... Revascularization, treatment ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology ... #Management
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
our friends from Cardiology ... patient before making ... echocardiogram #management ... #clinical #criticalcare ... #foamed #treatment
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
Diagnosis and Management ... Nonspecific findings Imaging ... not possible • Ultrasound ... Dual-energy CT → MSU ... Gout #diagnosis #management
Severe Influenza Checklist

Diagnostic tests 
 - Blood cultures x2 
 - Sputum gram stain & culture
Diagnostic tests ... - Ultrasound ... suspected Adiunctive treatments ... Influenza #Checklist #Management ... #CriticalCare