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Warm Shock Cold Shock THINK: sepsis, anaphylaxis, neuro/CNS Warm, bounding & wide pulses, good cap refill, flushed Due to vasodilating…
Normally, we use the ‘4-2-1’ rule for calculating rates of maintenance fluid administration: 4mL/kg/hr for each of the 1st 10kg…
Infiltrates is a term commonly used to describe findings on chest x-ray, but what does it mean? Simply put it…
Typically a sputum gram stain will be sent off to isolate potential respiratory pathogens. Normally your findings should contain many…
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