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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Acute Respiratory ... Distress Syndrome ... – ARDS: Clinical ... leading to increased pulmonary ... the underlying cause
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
toxicity (e.g., acute respiratory ... distress syndrome ... Pleuritic chest ... Exclude other causes ... #diagnosis #management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... Clinical • Under-recognized ... support for patients clinically ... #cardiology #treatment
On the left a patient with both septal thickening and ground glass opacity in a patchy
pneumonia (COP), adult respiratory ... distress syndrome ... and pulmonary hemorrhage ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #SeptalThickening
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... Change in clinical ... days before Pulmonary ... change CV risk Chest ... medical and surgical management
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
outcome in many cases ... indistinguishable from acute respiratory ... distress syndrome ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #AIP #
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
American male in mild distress ... This patient’s clinical ... exam findings and clinical ... Most commonly caused ... #Radiology #CTChest
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
neutropenia, and iron ... has five major clinical ... aches, joint pain, chest ... fungal stain of clinical ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management