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Hematuria Workup and Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Confirm hematuria → Urinalysis >3 RBCs/HPF, exclude mimics, repeat testing
Hematuria Workup ... Urinalysis >3 RBCs ... proteinuria, RBC casts ... Nephrology if cause ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Workup
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
are caused by prerenal ... CONSIDER INTRINSIC CAUSES ... microscopy for WBCs ... , RBCs, casts, crystals ... KidneyInjury #simplified #workup
How do you work up an ischemic CVA?
A) Initial Evaluation
 • ABCs
 • IV access, monitor
How do you work ... Evaluation • ABCs ... Evaluate underlying cause ... Ruled out other causes ... #CVA #stroke #workup
Key Basic Plan - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

This Key Basic Plan will detect and identify
Guidelines for Crises ... There are specific drills ... Basics #Checklist #ABCDs ... #ABCs #BasicPlan ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Polycythemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Polycythemia itself isn’t a diagnosis. Like many things, it is a condition
an underlying cause ... there so many RBCs ... about secondary causes ... you’ll do a good workup ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #workup
TTP - Laboratory Evaluation for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Activity of von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease activity - A
decrease in most cases ... schistocytes, nucleated RBCs ... hematuria (without casts ... ThromboticThrombocytopenicPurpura #Diagnosis #Workup
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
through the whole drill ... Consider potential causes ... POTENTIAL CAUSES ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Workup ... #Management #Workup
Posterior Knee Dislocation Injury
Specifically, POSTERIOR KNEE DISLOCATIONS can have significant associated injury that needs unique approach
unique approach and workup ... DISLOCATION: ~25% cases ... WORK UP: obtain ... vascular assessments (ABIs