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Navigating a Rapid Response Team (RRT)

Assert Leadership:
 • Stand at foot of bed
 • Introduce yourself
Rapid Response Team ... Current problem • Leading ... Orders placed, treatments ... Rapid #Response #Team ... #RRT #Management
BiPAP Initiation Algorithm
Screen for contraindications:
 • Obtundation (unarousable)
 • Inability to wear a mask (wounds)
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BiPAP Initiation ... Algorithm Screen ... • Inability to wear ... a mask (wounds) ... #Algorithm #management
Quick Guide: Methadone Starts in the Hospital
Day 1: max daily dose 40 mg methadone
First dose
• Check
Hospital Opioid Use Treatment ... ) #Methadone #Initiation ... #Algorithm #Treatment ... #Management #Addiction ... Opiate #Start #Prescribing
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
person-years • 50-year ... deteriorate w/ initiation ... • Treatment of ... adrenoceptors, potentially leading ... #treatment
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
with Cardio-OB team ... Period • Breast-feeding ... Avoid ARBs • ICD ... with Cardio-OB team ... #cardiology #treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
tuberculosis infections/year ... involvement - seeding ... or 9 months Initiating ... Treatment With ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
tuberculosis infections/year ... involvement - seeding ... or 9 months Initiating ... Treatment With ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
specific questions to ask ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... echo in the last year ... - what is the bleeding ... medical and surgical management
Ulcerative Proctitis
Proctitis:
 • Affects 1/3 patients
 • Predictors of extension:
     - Disease
- 1 flare/year ... prolapse, CD, cancer Treatment ... Ulcerative #Proctitis #IBD ... #diagnosis #management ... #algorithm
Quick Guide: Buprenorphine Initiation Algorithm
Adjunctive meds: 
The following can be prescribed PRN for symptoms of withdrawal
Buprenorphine Initiation ... Buprenorphine #Initiation ... #Algorithm #Treatment ... #Management #Addiction ... Opiate #Start #Prescribing