Category Medical Specialty
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Ventriculitis

Bacterial ventriculitis (BV) is inflammation of the ventricular drainage system, usually due to bacterial infection of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

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

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Scleroderma

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

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

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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Bispectral Index (BIS) Monitoring

Bispectral Index (BIS) Monitoring: BIS monitor was developed by Aspect Medical Systems; BIS = bispectral index; other 'depth of anaesthesia' monitors exist (e.g. Entropy)

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Isoniazid toxicity

Isoniazid toxicity, like other hydrazines, primarily cause life-threatening seizures and lactic acidosis through depletion of vitamin B6. The antidote is pyridoxine

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Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy

Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy: hepatic dysfunction + microvesicular infiltration of hepatocytes; thought to be a variant of PET; fetal and maternal mortality = 20%