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Navigating a Rapid Response Team (RRT)

Assert Leadership:
 • Stand at foot of bed
 • Introduce yourself
• Confirm code status ... • Confirm IV access ... • Concise one-liner ... questions "Never ... Response #Team #RRT #Management
Suspected catheter-related bloodstream infection - Management Algorithm
 • Temperature 37.8 C   • Rigors
Algorithm • Temperature ... endocarditis, epidural abscess ... pathogens (S. aureus, fungal ... Hernodynamically stable after treatment ... #Algorithm #CRBSI
Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
Candidemia Workup and Management ... within one week to assess ... Consider: Spine, CNS, liver ... #candidiasis #treatment ... #fungal #fungemia
Emergency Treatment Algorithm for Convulsive Status Epilepticus
1. ABCDEFG (ABC's and Don't Ever Forget the Glucose)
2. Airway:
Emergency Treatment ... Algorithm for Convulsive ... ABC's and Don't Ever ... IV access 4. ... #Algorithm #Management
Hyponatremia - Diagnosis and Treatment
Hyponatremia is usually caused by the inability to excrete water normally.
attention to volume status ... Assess volume status ... Treatment: Treatment ... include vaptans (HF/liver ... #management #nephrology
Emergency Treatment Algorithm for Convulsive Status Epilepticus 
 1. ABCDEFG (ABC's and Don't Ever Forget the
Emergency Treatment ... Algorithm for Convulsive ... ABC's and Don't Ever ... IV access 4. ... ADVANCED AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
There are similarities and differences between these 3 conditions which all carry treatment implications. Each mimic
which all carry treatment ... stores in the liver ... beta-oxidation in the liver ... #differential #algorithm ... #management #treatment
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
• Dimorphic fungus ... • The fungus ... lives in moist soil ... basins, midwestern states ... Blastomycosis #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
iron overload states ... Mississippi and Ohio River ... normal glucose level ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... #Diagnosis #Management