icupearls.org Archive
Pearls on Intensive Care Medicine Practice - Project "Critical Care A Day"
Monday, March 18, 2024
SMI and CVD
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Rhupus
Saturday, March 16, 2024
ECG in acute pericarditis
Monday, March 11, 2024
Sialorrhea
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Anti-hypertensive Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC)
Fournier's Gangrene
Necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum is called Fournier gangrene. It is vital to know that Fournier gangrene occurs when there is a breach in the integrity of the gastrointestinal (GI) or genital-urethral (GU) mucosa. This basic understanding is essential to comprehend the urgency and polymicrobial nature of the disease.
This breach in the mucosa of GI or GU symptomatically begins abruptly with severe pain, usually rapidly reaching the anterior abdominal wall and gluteal muscles. This classic presentation makes life easier for clinicians to keep a low threshold to involve surgical service way early in the process. Men are more commonly affected with scrotal and penile involvement.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Characteristic finding of CSF In GBS
Friday, March 8, 2024
Erythrocytosis and smoking.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Adjunct Rx of behavioral effects due to levetiracetam
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Benzodiazepines as antiemetics
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Cachexia and sarcopenia
Monday, March 4, 2024
Factors predictive of corticosteroid psychosis in patients with SLE
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Boas' sign
Saturday, March 2, 2024
CRD
- "uncomplicated" (Grade 1 or 2)
- "complicated." - all above grades
Friday, March 1, 2024
Asplenia and neutrophils
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Adenosine Stress Test
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Adult testicular torsion
Monday, February 26, 2024
Dry purpura and wet purpura.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
QTc risk factors
- Female sex
- History of heart disease
- Concurrent use of two QT-prolonging drug
- Hypokalemia
- High drug dose
- Prior history of Long QTc
Nitrates MOA
Friday, February 23, 2024
ETT diameter
Thursday, February 22, 2024
calcitonin in severe hypercalcemia
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Asymptomatic candiduria in a renal transplant patients
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Diphenhydramine in Palliative Care Patients
Monday, February 19, 2024
singers' emboli
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Screening test for claustrophobic feeling in MRI
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Magnesium in ETOH withdrawal
- Hypokalemia
- Hypomagnesemia and
- Hypophosphatemia
Friday, February 16, 2024
Acute cholangitis: Diagnosis
- Fever and/or shaking chills.
- Laboratory evidence of an inflammatory response via abnormal WBC, high CRP, or any lab suggestive of inflammation
- Evidence of cholestasis: Bilirubin ≥2 mg/dL or abnormal liver chemistries (elevated alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, alanine aminotransferase, or aspartate aminotransferase, to >1.5 times the upper limit of normal).
- Imaging with biliary dilation or evidence of the underlying etiology (eg, a stricture, stone, or stent).
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Fatal familial insomnia
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Steroids in HELLP
- Hemolysis with a microangiopathic blood smear
- Elevated liver enzymes,
- Low platelet count