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IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
Clinical Disease ... duration same as ... clinical manifestation ... patients with acute ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Summary of meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy trials in BPD
https://www.cochrane.org/CD005652/BEHAV_psychological-therapies-borderline-personality-disorder
Meta-analyses of RCTs were undertaken for the following outcomes:
Clinical Practice ... with ‘treatment ... as usual’. ... in Tables 5.2 and ... EBM #Management #Pharmacology
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis

Stress ulcerations are common in ICU patients and may lead to hemorrhage if not
prophylaxis for primary prevention ... ulceration or treatment ... Risk Factors • Clinical ... #Prophylaxis #criticalcare ... #pharmacology #
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
important to recognize Acute ... Cardiac cath if acute ... #table #foamed ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare ... #pharmacology
Altitude Sickness: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) and High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
Altitude Sickness: Acute ... Edema (HAPE) Clinical ... Elevation, Timing, Treatment ... and Prevention ... Elevation #Comparison #Table
Sepsis - Diagnosis and Management
Life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection
SEPTIC SHOCK
Clinical construct ... HR > 90 bpm 3. ... AMS (GCS < 15) ... recognition and treatment ... #QSOFA #SIRS #criticalcare
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Syndrome - Summary Acute ... meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... threatening labile BP ... variants: (1) acute
Pain, Agitation, and Delirium (PAD) in the ICU
Addressing the ICU Triad (PAD) can be accomplished through
Care Pain Observation ... will vary with clinical ... No pharmacologic ... be effective in preventing ... Delirium #PAD #ICU #CriticalCare
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the setting of acute ... typically able ... echocardiogram #management #clinical ... #criticalcare # ... foamed #treatment
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
months before 1° prevention ... defibrillator as ... complications are ... Karan Desai MD, MPH ... management #cardiology #treatment