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Diagnostic approach to the admitted patient with possible COVID-19

Initial evaluation
- Chest X-ray
- Lung ultrasound (thorough "lawn-mower"
exam to look for focal ... - CBC with differential ... diagnostics as clinically ... indicated (e.g. echocardiogram ... iBookCC #COVID19 #algorithm
Common Dermatological Conditions - Distribution and Morphology
 • Acne vulgaris - Face, upper back, chest -
Common Dermatological ... associated with signs ... Christmas tree pattern ... ; pruritis #dermatology ... #rash #differential
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
the duodenum Clinical ... Signs/Symptoms: ... • Should be on differential ... intervention, no matter ... within the aorta, focal
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
function tests algorithm ... symptoms/signs ... evaluation of the pattern ... Areas of diagnostic ... Liver #Enzymes #Differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
of age • Most common ... association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Behcet disease) Differential ... diagnosis #management #signs
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Mediterranean areas ... in the knee-to-chest ... Positive Carnett's sign ... incisional hernias: clinical ... Abdominal #Pain #differential
On the left a patient who is treated with cytotoxic drugs for a hematologic malignancy.
The radiographic
radiographic findings are areas ... or NSIP pattern ... disease in the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #DrugInduced
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (2)
The case on the left shows an inspiratory and expiratory scan: the mosaic
scan: the mosaic pattern ... Signs of fibrosis ... included in the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #Chronic
Resuscitative Thoracotomy
NOTE: this video is NOT standard technique.
Aka "cracking the chest". A potentially life saving technique
10% depending on clinical ... loss of vital signs ... blunt trauma) Eastern ... or ask your local ... #Thoracotomy #clinical