8 results
Leptospirosis
Pathogen: Leptospira (interrogans, kirschneri, noguchii)
Risk Factors:
 • Occupational exposure - Farmers, ranchers, trappers, veterinarians
 • Recreational
Leptospirosis Pathogen ... non-productive cough, nausea ... failure • Severe pulmonary ... microbiology #diagnosis #treatment ... #management
Salicylate Toxicity - Diagnosis and Management

Consider if:
1) Patient is hot and altered
2) You see tachypnea with
tachypnea with no respiratory ... cause 3) Labs ... , Diaphoresis, Pulmonary ... Metabolic Acidosis, Respiratory ... #Treatment
Massive Hemoptysis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Definitions: 
   - Hemoptysis = bleeding from
Diagnosis and Management ... Pseudo-hemoptysis = upper respiratory ... has potential to cause ... #treatment #workup ... #pulmonary #criticalcare
Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR)

Here's the bedside Echo of an 8-week-old boy who presented to
Total Anomalous ... Pulmonary Venous ... acute cyanosis and respiratory ... (This causes ↑ strain ... #Return #POCUS
IDSA Algorithm for the Management of Purulent skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). 
Mild infection: for
Algorithm for the Management ... minute), tachypnea (respiratory ... erysipelas with no focus ... oral antibiotic treatment ... including those caused
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
starting amiodarone treatment ... toxicity (e.g., acute respiratory ... Exclude other causes ... macrophages Treatment ... #diagnosis #management
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides): Valley Fever - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode of Transmission
self-limiting respiratory ... When symptomatic→ pulmonary ... Diagnosis • Management ... - Mild pulmonary ... disease: no treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
conidia → Yeast → travel ... presents with acute respiratory ... spores into the respiratory ... Begins in the respiratory ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management