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Recently TEG has emerged as a more integrative approach which explores both clotting factors and cellular
sample of whole blood ... #Diagnosis #Thromboelastography ... #Thromboelastogram ... #TEG #Interpretation
Peripheral Blood Smear Analysis
Hypochromia
Megaloblastic Anemia
Schistocytes: Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (e.g. DIC, TTP, HUS)
Microspherocytes: Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Sickled red
Peripheral Blood ... hemolytic anemia (e.g ... #hematology #microscopy ... #interpretation ... #clinical #anemia
Thromboelastography (trademarked as TEG)
 • Graphical representation of the fibrin polymerization process
 • Point-of-care anti-coagulation monitoring
Thromboelastography ... transfusion of blood ... need for specific blood ... #Thromboelastogram ... #TEG #interpretation
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
Peripheral blood ... DIC is a clinical ... count, D-dimer, egg ... Pathology #Smear #Microscopy
Emergency Management of Hyperkalemia in Adults
Assess Patient - Airway Breathing Circulation Disability Exposure (ABCDE) Approach
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Treatment guided by clinical ... scenario, ECG and ... Resonium • Consider Dialysis ... Monitor K+ and Blood ... Monitor serum K+ and blood
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Clinical suspicion ... Amyloidosis Clinical ... LVH, low-voltage EKG ... Diagnostic Testing Blood ... polarized light microscopy
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
transplantation CLINICAL ... nearly complete paralysis ... normal CSF white blood ... Electrodiagnostic studies (Ex EMG ... specific therapy, the clinician
Anemia of Hospitalization - Pathophysiology

Why does the Hgb/Hct drop in the first two days during hospitalization?

Interestingly,
drop in your pts blood ... the Journal of Clinical ... 500 mL in a 70 kg ... reasoning during clinical ... end this ‘pajama paralysis
Rheumatology Workup - Laboratories Studies in Rheumatic Diseases

• Septic arthritis - Gram stain and culture of
polarized light microscopy ... Polyarthritis: • Blood ... : • Complete blood ... Chemistry profile (e.g ... ANA and RF (if clinical