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Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... , lung sliding) ... Troponin), ABG, STAT CXR ... , CTA Chest, Echocardiogram ... #Management #treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... disease: Pleuritic chest ... level seen • Chest ... until the chest ... #treatment #diagnosis
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
Oleothorax - A chest ... opacity in the upper area ... The differential diagnosis ... Clinical #PCC #Radiology ... #CXR #Oleothorax
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... Chest x-ray: signs ... → no signs of CXR ... #management #cardiology
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
and Management ... • Pleuritic chest ... Uremia (blood urea ... infiltrate by chest ... #Management #treatment
Lung infarction
The radiographic features of acute pulmonary thromboembolism are insensitive and nonspecific.
The most common radiographic findings
Lung infarction ... Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis ... pulmonary emboli the chest ... the infarcted area ... #CXR #PulmonaryEmbolism
Rib fractures on POCUS 
1. look for a discontinuity at the site of pain and tenderness
US beats CXR on ... beyond a clinical diagnosis ... orient in line on long ... course based on chest ... clinical #ultrasound #trauma
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
trauma are diagnosed ... x-ray (CXR), try ... not seen on a CXR ... #Radiology #CTChest ... #Lung #Pulmonary