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Anal Fissure Management
Primary Care Setting:
Treat for 6 weeks with:
  1. Dietary advice
  2. Bulk
Anal Fissure Management ... Recommend paracetamol ... Lidocaine gel #Anal #Fissure
#paracetamol #paracetamoloverdose #NAC
#paracetamol #paracetamoloverdose
5-Oxoprolinuria
What is it:
 • Aka pyroglutamic acidosis, Intermediate in γ-glutamyl cycle
 • Amino acid transport and
Link to chronic paracetamol ... • Continuous paracetamol ... Diagnosis: • HAGMA; Paracetamol ... HDU • Withdraw paracetamol
Nodular pattern
1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: ill defined centrilobular nodules.
2. Miliary TB: random nodules
3. Sarcoidosis: nodules with perilymphatic
distribution, along fissures ... to pleura and fissure
Characteristic clinical manifestations of Down syndrome 
 
Typical craniofacial appearance 
 • Round face and flat
Upslanted palpebral fissures ... the palpebral fissure
Acute bacterial skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs)

#skin #softtissue #infections #cellulitis #infectiousdiseases #management #treatment #diagnosis #sstis
skin and soft tissue
Open Fractures: Mechanisms, Clinical Features and Complications
Gustilo-Anderson Classification:
 • Type I
   - Wound <
- Possible tissue ... Adequate soft tissue ... IIIB - ++ soft tissue
Oxygen-Hemoglobin Dissociation Curve

Left Shift (↓ O2 unloading to tissue), Left = Lower:
 • ↓ H+ (↑
O2 unloading to tissue ... O2 unloading to tissue
Decubitus Ulcer Staging - Pressure Ulcer Stages help staff determine Degree of Harm to the patient.

Stage
to surrounding tissue ... risk for further tissue ... obscure the depth of tissue ... • Subcutaneous tissue ... obscure the depth of tissue
Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases

LIP: lymphoid interstitial pneumonia. NSIP: nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. OP: organizing pneumonia.
Connective tissue ... mixed connective tissue