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Small Bowel Obstruction (Jejunum) Visualized on POCUS
Convex transducer viewing dilated jejunum w/ valvulae conniventes (“keyboard sign”).
Criteria
Visualized on POCUS ... Criteria for SBO ... free fluid (tanga sign ... #Jejunum #SBO #POCUS ... clinical #ultrasound #abdominal
An Algorithm for the Management of Seizures

The management of active seizures is algorithmic, starting with a
the Management ... Seizures The management ... continuous vital sign ... The focus is on ... #Management #Emergency
Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Diagnosis and Management ... Symptoms and Signs ... Abdominal pain; ... Disease #diagnosis #algorithm ... #management #criteria
Emergency Tracheostomy Management Algorithm - Patent Upper Airway

This algorithm assumes a potentially patent upper airway, meaning
Emergency Tracheostomy ... Management Algorithm ... green bedhead sign ... #Management #CriticalCare ... #Tracheostomy #Emergency
Blood Culture Collection Algorithm - Adult Patients with Suspected Systemic Infection 

Pawlowicz et al evidenced based
Implementation-of-an-evidence-based-algorithm-reduces-blood-culture-overuse-in-an-adult-emergency-department.php ... who meet SIRS criteria ... unstable vital signs ... #Management #BloodCultures ... #Indications #Criteria
Emergency Laryngectomy Management

This algorithm is paired with the red bed-head sign and indicates that the patient
Emergency Laryngectomy ... Management This ... algorithm is paired ... the red bed-head sign ... #Laryngectomy #Emergency
Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of
applicable to emergency ... airway management ... prediction models only focus ... called the HEAVEN criteria ... #PCC #Heaven #Criteria
IDSA Algorithm for the Management of Purulent skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). 
Mild infection: for
IDSA Algorithm for ... the Management ... erysipelas with no focus ... #SSTIs #Algorithm ... #Management #skin
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
→ Syncope • Signs ... heat stress • Criteria ... - Headache - Abdominal ... Exertional Heat Stroke: EMERGENCY ... temperatures • Criteria
#POCUS clip in the RUQ with findings suggestive of a perforated viscus
-complex free fluid in Morrison's
#POCUS clip in the ... thoracic spine sign ... #ultrasound #pocus ... #abdominal #emergency