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CA-Bridge Buprenorphine Hospital Quick Start Algorithm - Management of acute opiate withdrawal 
 - Any prescriber
Hospital Quick Start Algorithm ... Buprenorphine Dosing ... try Bup 0.3mg IV/IM ... co-exisiting chronic pain ... split dosing TID
Acute limb ischemia (ALI)

Rapid decrease in lower limb blood flow due to acute occlusion of peripheral
are abrupt with pain ... Critical Limb ischemia ... pathophysiology: ... diseased arteries during ... angioplasty balloons, & stents
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... progressive back pain ... decreased reflexes Pathophysiology ... should be done in ALL ... intervention CMC IM
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
Phosphatase Of Clinical ... cases diagnosed during ... risk of joint pain ... is critical for ... collection with EDTA Pathophysiology
Orbital Cellulitis: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Definitions:
a. Chemosis: Edema of the bulbar conjunctiva
b. Panopthalmitis: inflammation of all
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... inflammation of all ... periorbital edema -> Pain ... cornea -> Corneal drying ... Orbital #Cellulitis #pathophysiology
Myasthenia Gravis - Summary
 • an autoimmune disease of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction associated with antibodies
Diagnosis: • Based on clinical ... exacerbation at high doses ... immunosuppressant agents ... - Improves clinical ... Hospital of Baltimore IM
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Other triggering events ... transplantation CLINICAL ... complete paralysis of all ... the underlying pathophysiology ... Hospital of Baltimore IM
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
arrived w/severe abd pain ... headache and abd pain ... or PenG 800K U IM ... treated in a single dose ... microscopy #pathology #clinical
Anemia of Hospitalization - Pathophysiology

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

Interestingly,
Hospitalization - Pathophysiology ... Why does the ... the Journal of Clinical ... clinical evaluations ... Hospitalization #causes #pathophysiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Itraconazole is the agent ... has five major clinical ... tissue • High-dose ... , chest pain • ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology