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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
therapies in critical care ... steroids to treat infectious ... ventilation, ARDS acute ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
Sexually Transmitted Infections - Common Outpatient Treatments 
Chlamydia 
 - Azithromycin 1 g PO once
Sexually Transmitted Infections ... Common Outpatient Treatments ... conditions including acute ... the first-line treatments ... #Management #Pharmacology
Differentiation Syndrome in APML
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: common in APL (2-48% depending on the study)
 • Triggers:
Presentation: Subacute-Acute ... : DAH, acute febrile ... Differential Diagnosis: Infection ... sepsis), PE, DAH, CHF ... , Anaphylaxis, Acute
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... to 12 weeks for acute ... Chronic, subacute to acute ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Coccidioidomycosis Symptoms: • Acute
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
Disease Note: Treatment ... patients with acute ... Preferred Therapy for Acute ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Syndrome (GBS) Acute ... to a preceding infection ... • Most common infection ... and cauda equina TREATMENT ... the intensive care
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
important to recognize Acute ... Cardiac cath if acute ... algorithm #management #cardiology ... #heartfailure #chf ... icu #clinical #pharmacology
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the setting of acute ... physiological response to acute ... dilated vessels, or acutely ... #echocardiogram ... criticalcare #foamed #treatment
Sulfonamides - Antibiotics Class Overview

BACTRIM/SEPTRA (TMP/SMX) - inhibit sequential steps in Folate synthesis --> bacteriostatic

Spectrum: Wide
from other agents are ... choice, both for treatment ... patients, Salmonella infections ... Traveler’s diarrhea, acute ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram Short-Axis View (PSAX)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic
LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram ... woman in ICU for acute ... PMHx recent CHF, ... #Cardiac #LV #Echocardiogram ... PSAX #clinical #cardiology