Category CCC

The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.

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Vasospasm in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Vasospasm in SAH: vasospasm = dynamic narrowing of vessels due to a radiological diagnosis; delayed neurological deterioration (DND) is clinically detected neurological deterioration after stabilisation not due to re-bleeding, may be due to multiple other causes; delayed cerebral ischaemia (DCI) is any neurological deterioration >1 hour that presumed due to ischemia, and other causes excluded

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Cerebral Salt Wasting

Cerebral Salt Wasting: also now known as renal salt wasting; hyponatraemia not always required to make diagnosis, but often present; cerebral lesion + excess renal loss of Na+ and Cl-; cerebral lesions: SAH, TBI, tumour

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Cachexia

Cachexia refers to weight loss and skeletal muscle wasting due to illness where the body does not reduce catabolism (unlike the adaptive reduction in protein metabolism that occurs in starvation). Mechanisms not clearly understood

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Scleroderma

Scleroderma = autoimmune mediated widespread collagenous deposition. Limited form: Calcinosis, Raynauds, Esophageal dysfunction, Sclerodacytaly and Telangiectasia (CREST syndrome)

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Polyangiitis – MPA, GPA, EGPA

Polyangiitis - MPA, GPA, EGPA: similar but different diseases; positive Antineutrophil cytopasmic antibiodies (ANCA); renal histology (focal necrotizing, pauci-immune glomerulonephritis)

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Pulmonary Artery Catheter

Pulmonary Artery Catheter aka Swan-Ganz catheter (or 'the yellow snake'); continuous cardiac output monitoring; pulmonary artery pressure and more...