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Childhood Immunization Schedule: Why we immunize
 • Diphtheria Toxin -> URT inflammation causes pseudomembrane with hardened
pharyngeal erythema, fever ... pharyngeal erythema, fever ... asymmetric reduction in tone ... Sudden onset of fever ... pruritic rash, fever
Faget Sign - Pulse-Temperature Dissociation
Causes of Relative Bradycardia
 • Infectious Causes: Legionella, Psittacosis, Q fever, Typhoid
Dissociation Causes ... • Infectious Causes ... , Dengue fever, ... Non-Infectious Causes ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Faget's Sign & Liebermeister's Rule
Pulse-Temperature Dissociation
EVERY 1 F RISE IN TEMPERATURE -> HR INCREASES 8-10 BPM
INFECTIOUS
BPM INFECTIOUS CAUSES ... OTHER CAUSES ... Dengue Fever NOTE ... There are specific cases ... #differential #causes
Causes of Relative Bradycardia - Note the propensity for intracellular organisms.
Infectious: 
Legionella, Psittacosis, Q fever, Typhoid
Causes of Relative ... Psittacosis, Q fever ... , Typhoid fever, ... , Dengue fever, ... #bradycardia #Causes
Fever Patterns - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Continuous Fever:
Temp > 38°C with only 1 degree fluctuation in 24
Fever Patterns - ... Continuous Fever ... Non-Infectious Causes ... : • Dengue fever ... ) • Dengue
Dengue Fever - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Dengue Fever → Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever →Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock
Dengue Fever - Diagnosis ... FeverDengue ... Hemorrhagic Fever ... Presentation: Fever ... #Fever #Diagnosis
Scarlet Fever - Other symptoms include: white coating on the tongue which then peels and leave
Scarlet Fever - ... coating on the tongue ... a ‘strawberry’ tongue
Kawasaki Disease

Diagnostic criteria: 5-day fever PLUS four of the following…
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Bilateral conjunctivitis
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Cervical lymph
criteria: 5-day fever ... lips/strawberry tongue
Fever in the Returning Traveler - History
Exposure History:
 • Street foods / Local water: entenc fever,
Fever in the Returning ... water: entenc fever ... bites: malaria, dengue ... travellers' diarrhea, dengue ... biphasic): malaria, dengue
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
circumferential dressings/casts ... Syndrome • Syndrome caused ... - Fever, ... tissue necrosis ceases ... of sympathethic tone