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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
younger pts) Differential ... intravascular hemolysis on rewarming
Rewarming Methods in Hypothermia
 • Passive rewarming - Requires adequate patient physiologic mechanisms. Inadequate for more
Rewarming Methods ... Hypothermia • Passive rewarming ... Active external rewarming ... cardiac arrest #Rewarming
Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest Management
"Not dead until 32° and dead"
1) Start ACLS + Rewarming
2) Should this code
) Start ACLS + Rewarming ... with invasive rewarming ... resuscitation #rewarming
High Quality Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) Post Cardiac Arrest
 - timing
 - target temperature
 - temperature
duration of cooling/rewarming
Osborn (J Wave)

Etiology 
• Hypothermia (below 320C / SOOF) 
• Normal variant 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Neurological
resolves with warming ... JWave #Diagnosis #Differential
Eosinophils swarming a nematode on Microscopy - Time Lapse

#Eosinophils #nematode #clinical #video #Microscopy #microbiology #TimeLapse
Eosinophils swarming
Differentiating Features Between Central and Peripheral Cyanosis

Mechanism - Arterial destauration
Sites - Skin, mucous membrane of oral
- Present On warming ... erythrocytosis - Absent On warming
A lazy man's classification of hyponatremia
There are two possible approaches to the diagnosis of hyponatremia: .
to a conclusion regarding ... Hyponatremia #Algorithm #Differential
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Patient Decision Aid

Page showing options, presenting probabilities, using statistics, and highlighting
unique framing regarding ... This reframing was
The SALT Mass Casualty Triage Approach
 - SALT stands for “Sort, Assess, Lifesaving interventions, and Treatment
- No data regarding