Infectious disease previews relevant to emergency and critical care, including pneumonia, dengue, listeria, hantavirus, and streptococcal disease.
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Dengue Fever introduces the clinical pattern, physiology, and bedside decisions that matter for emergency and critical care practice.
Listeria Basics: Comprehensive Overview introduces the clinical pattern, physiology, and bedside decisions that matter for emergency and critical care practice.
Streptococcal Pharyngitis (Strep Throat) Basics: Comprehensive Overview introduces the clinical pattern, physiology, and bedside decisions that matter for emergency and critical care practice.
Rhinovirus, coronavirus, adenovirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), influenza, parainfluenza. Group C & G Streptococcus, Fusobacterium necrophorum (in adolescents/young adults), Mycoplasma. Small vesicles on soft palate/tonsils, mostly in children. Oral ulcers + vesicular rash on hands/feet, often in young kids. Neck stiffness, drooling, stridor, usually in children <5 years. Consider in sexually active individuals; often asymptomatic or mild sore throat. Adolescents/young adults, pharyngitis with sepsis, neck pain/swelling (IJ vein thrombosis). Chronic sore throat, especially in the morning, associated with heartburn.
Always evaluate sore throat in the context of age, exposure history, symptoms, and physical exam findings.
Hantaviruses are a group of ~30 related rodent‑borne viruses causing two main human syndromes: Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS/HPS) and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). Disease patterns vary by geography due to different viral species and rodent reservoirs.
U.S.: Surveillance began in 1993 (Four Corners region). Cumulative cases ~1993-2022 numbered in the hundreds, with ~35% mortality reported for HCPS; most cases occur west of the Mississippi (Southwest, West Coast, Pacific Northwest).• Europe: Annual HFRS cases often number in the low thousands, concentrated in Finland and Germany; disease phenotype differs from U.S. due to circulating species.• Media attention periodically spikes with notable cases; sporadic clusters reported in U.S.
Family includes hantaviridae (single‑stranded RNA viruses). Multiple species; Sin Nombre virus is prominent in the U.S. Southwest and strongly associated with severe HCPS.• Zoonosis: Maintained in rodents; humans are incidental hosts.• U.S. rodent reservoirs: deer mouse, white‑footed mouse, rice rat, cotton rat. Geographic ranges vary, enabling exposure risks across much of the country.
Oxygen targets in mechanically ventilated patients, hyperoxemia, hypoxemia, SpO2 goals, PaO2, and ICU oxygen titration.
Mini CourseA complete member course on RASS, CPOT, CAM-ICU, sedatives, analgesics, and ventilated patient comfort.
Study Guide TopicARDS diagnosis, lung-protective ventilation, driving pressure, VILI, and severe hypoxemia.
Study Guide TopicOxygen delivery, HFNC, COPD, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, capnography, and blood gases.
Study Guide TopicCrystalloids, colloids, fluid responsiveness, venous congestion, and de-resuscitation physiology.
