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Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
hot, swollen, pain ... Workup: arthrocentesis ... imaging unlikely to be ... diagnosis Treatment ... MH/CCF/CWRU EM
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
joint disease must be ... • Inflammatory arthritis ... #MSK #rheumatology ... #approach #workup ... #differential #
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
Diagnosis and Workup ... - History of bleeding ... (CVID, WAS), (neurologic ... However, it may be ... #hematology
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
- Arthritis Differential ... to get out of bed ... Joint #pain #Differential ... #Diagnosis #MSK ... #rheumatology #
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
Approach to Joint Pain ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... #rheumatology # ... approach #workup ... #differential #
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... very remarkable w/differential ... claudication: pain ... chews, not just pain ... Treatment of GCA
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... Behcet disease) Differential ... , AS Treatment: ... Nonsurgical abdominal pain ... signs #symptoms #rheumatology
Boxer's Fracture - ED Management
Be sure to assess for wounds in patients with fractures of the
prophylactic antibiotic treatment ... ED Management: Pain ... flexed 70-900 • Ortho ... MH/CCF/CWRU EM ... #Orthopedics #MSK
Polycythemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Polycythemia itself isn’t a diagnosis. Like many things, it is a condition
Polycythemia - Differential ... : neuro, heme (bleeding ... Better call hematology ... you’ll do a good workup ... #hematology
Rheumatology Workup - Laboratories Studies in Rheumatic Diseases

• Septic arthritis - Gram stain and culture of
Rheumatology Workup ... • Hepatitis B serology ... low back pain) ... C serology testing ... #laboratory #workup