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Original and Simplified PESI Prediction Rule Test Characteristics for 30-Day Mortality
#EBM #Diagnosis	#EM #IM #PCC	#PESI #sPESI #risk
Day Mortality #EBM ... #Diagnosis #EM ... #IM #PCC #PESI # ... sPESI #risk #score
Pulmonary Embolism Severeity Index - estimates 30d mortality #Diagnosis #Management #EM #IM #PCC #PESI #sPESI #risk
30d mortality #Diagnosis ... #Management #EM ... #IM #PCC #PESI ... #sPESI #risk #score
Original and Simplified PESI PulmonaryEmbolism #Diagnosis #EM #IM #PCC #PESI #sPESI #risk #score #PE #Table
PulmonaryEmbolism #Diagnosis ... #EM #IM #PCC #PESI ... #sPESI #risk #score
A good approach when dealing with hypotension at the bedside includes using the following systematic four
Vascular Resistance #Diagnosis ... #Management #EM ... #IM #PCC #Hypotensive
Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) as a site-of-care tool. BUN, blood urea nitrogen; CHF, chronic heart failure;
blood pressure #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... #Risk #Stratification
Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) as a site-of-care tool. BUN, blood urea nitrogen; CHF, chronic heart failure;
blood pressure #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... #Risk #Stratification
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Recent PCI/stenting ... since elective PCI ... unless prior heart/lung ... #Evaluation #stratification ... #diagnosis
Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI)  - The PSI was developed from an administrative data set of
of populations #Management ... #EM #IM #Pneumonia ... #Risk #Stratification
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... and Management ... pneumonia • DM risk ... Clindamycin in case of PCN ... residual lesion or is clear
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
SIow growing, Long ... carbon loving' Risk ... Asplenia (greatest risk ... specificity of PCR ... #management #treatment