Epiglottitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Stridor
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
Abbreviations:
AP= Anteroposterior, CXR= Chest X-ray, CT= Computed tomography, ABG= Arterial blood gas, V/Q= Ventilation/perfusion scan , EKG= Electrocardiogram, COPD= Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, BNP= Brain natriuretic peptide, DVT= Deep vein thrombosis, HRCT= High Resolution CT, IgE= Immunoglobulin E
Causes of cyanosis
|
Disease
|
Cyanosis
|
Clinical manifestations/association
|
Diagnosis
|
Additional
findings
|
Symptoms
|
Signs
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Respiratory
|
Airway
disorder
|
Severe croup[1]
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Audible stridor at rest
|
|
AP Neck X ray for soft tissues:
Lateral neck X ray:
|
|
- Croupy cough and stridor
- Intercostal, subcostal retractions
|
Epiglottitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Stridor
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
|
Foreign body aspiration
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
CXR
CT scan
|
|
Complications:
|
Bacterial tracheitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
- Brassy cough
- Retractions
- No drooling
- Hoarseness
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Parenchymal
disorder
|
Pneumonia
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
|
|
- CXR
- CT chest
- Bronchoscopy
- Sputum culture and gram stain
- Blood cultures
- Urine antigen
|
|
|
Asthma
(Late)
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔ in interstitial lung disease
|
−
|
- End expiratory wheeze
- Absent wheeze and breath sounds in severe form
|
|
CXR
- to rule out other diagnosis
- complications like pneumonia, atelactasis
HRCT
|
|
|
Cystic fibrosis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
when infected
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
Wheeze or crackles
|
|
CXR
HRCT for detecting lung changes
|
|
- Usually present since birth
- Recurrent pneumonia
- Recurrent wheezing
- Recurrent sinusitis
- Gastrointestinal manifestations
|
COPD
(Severe emphysema)
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
- Reduced breath sounds
- Prolonged expiration
- Wheeze
- Inspiratory crackles
|
|
CXR
- Elongated heart
- Flattening of diaphragms
- Prominent hilar vasculature
HRCT
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Pulmonary vascular disorders
|
Massive pulmonary embolism
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
- Reduced breath sounds
- Rales, crackles
- Loud P2
|
|
|
|
|
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation[2][3][4]
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
|
|
CXR
- Round/oval mass
- Connecting vessel in hilum
- Hemothorax
|
|
|
Chest wall disorders
|
Flail chest
|
|
|
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
|
Cardiovascular
|
Pneumothorax
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
|
Atrioventricular canal defect
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, Increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Ebstein anomaly
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Tetralogy of Fallot
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (systolic)
|
|
- CXR (Boot shaped heart, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Pulmonic stenosis
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (systolic)
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (Systolic)
|
|
- CXR (normal heart size and venous congestion but in patients without obstruction have cardiomegaly and increased pulmonary blood flow.)
|
|
|
|
Transposition of the great vessels
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
-
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Truncus arteriosus
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
sys/±dias
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Heart failure
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
+
|
+
|
|
+
|
+
(S3)
|
|
- CXR
- Increase in heart size compared to the old film.
- Pleural fluid
- Interstitial edema
- Echocardiography
- Angiography
- Cardiac MRI
- Nuclear imaging
|
|
- Endomyocardial biopsy can be used when a specific diagnosis is suspected that would influence therapy in heart failure patients.
|
Valvular heart disease
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
±
|
−
|
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
Myocardial infarction
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
−
|
+
|
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
Central Nervous system
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Methemoglobinemia
|
|
✔
|
+
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Family history of methemoglobinemia or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is important to determine.
|
Polycythemia
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
|
Tenderness in the sternum may indicate transformation to acute myeloid leukemia and should be properly investigated.
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Breath holding spells
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- video-EEG monitoring can be use in non diagnostic cases.
|
|
- Cyanotic breath-holding spells most commonly occur around 1 year of age with a range of six months to four years.
- Iron deficiency anemia is more prevalent in children with breath-holding spells.
|
Miscellaneous
|
Shock
|
✔
|
|
+
|
+ (septic shock)
|
+
|
|
+ (Cardiogenic shock)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Smoke inhalation
|
|
|
+
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
Electrolytes
BUN and CR,
Lactate levels
Toxicology screen
CO-oximetry
|
|
|
- CO toxicity should be suspected in any patient who presents following smoke inhalation unless co-oximetry shows normal carboxyhemoglobin.
|
Cold exposure
|
✔
|
−
|
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
- Mild hypothermia: core temperature 32 to 35°C ; patient presents with confusion, tachycardia, and increased shivering.
- Moderate hypothermia: 28 to 32°C patient presents with lethargy, bradycardia and arrhythmia and decreased shivering.
- Severe hypothermia: below 28°C patient presents with coma, hypotension, arrhythmia, pulmonary edema, and rigidity.
|
|
Causes of cyanosis
|
Cyanosis
|
Clinical manifestations/association
|
Diagnosis
|
Additional
findings
|
Symptoms
|
Signs
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Respiratory
|
Airway
disorder
|
Severe croup[5]
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Audible stridor at rest
|
|
AP Neck X ray for soft tissues:
Lateral neck X ray:
|
Clinical diagnosis
|
- Croupy cough and stridor
- Intercostal, subcostal retractions
|
Epiglottitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Stridor
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
|
Coma
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Seizures
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Head trauma
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Breath holding spells
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Miscellaneous
|
Shock
|
✔
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Smoke inhalation
|
|
|
✔
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
Cold exposure
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
- CBC
- Fingerstick glucose (Hyperglycemia)
- EKG-
- J wave
- Sinus bradycardia
- Prolongation of all ECG intervals.
- Serum electrolytes -K+ and calcium
|
|
|
- Mild hypothermia: core temperature 32 to 35°C ;
- Moderate hypothermia: 28 to 32°C
- Severe hypothermia: <28°C
|
Drugs†
|
|
|
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
|
|
Differential diagnosis
Abbreviations:
AP= Anteroposterior, CXR= Chest X-ray, CT= Computed tomography, ABG= Arterial blood gas, V/Q= Ventilation/perfusion scan , EKG= Electrocardiogram, COPD= Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, BNP= Brain natriuretic peptide, DVT= Deep vein thrombosis, HRCT= High Resolution CT, IgE= Immunoglobulin E
Causes of cyanosis
|
Disease
|
Cyanosis
|
Clinical manifestations/association
|
Diagnosis
|
Additional
findings
|
Symptoms
|
Signs
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Respiratory
|
Airway
disorder
|
Severe croup[1]
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Audible stridor at rest
|
|
AP Neck X ray for soft tissues:
Lateral neck X ray:
|
|
- Croupy cough and stridor
- Intercostal, subcostal retractions
|
Epiglottitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
Stridor
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
|
Foreign body aspiration
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
CXR
CT scan
|
|
Complications:
|
Bacterial tracheitis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
Lateral neck X ray
|
|
- Brassy cough
- Retractions
- No drooling
- Hoarseness
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Parenchymal
disorder
|
Pneumonia
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
|
|
- CXR
- CT chest
- Bronchoscopy
- Sputum culture and gram stain
- Blood cultures
- Urine antigen
|
|
|
Asthma
(Late)
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔ in interstitial lung disease
|
−
|
- End expiratory wheeze
- Absent wheeze and breath sounds in severe form
|
|
CXR
- to rule out other diagnosis
- complications like pneumonia, atelactasis
HRCT
|
|
|
Cystic fibrosis
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
when infected
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
Wheeze or crackles
|
|
CXR
HRCT for detecting lung changes
|
|
- Usually present since birth
- Recurrent pneumonia
- Recurrent wheezing
- Recurrent sinusitis
- Gastrointestinal manifestations
|
COPD
(Severe emphysema)
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
- Reduced breath sounds
- Prolonged expiration
- Wheeze
- Inspiratory crackles
|
|
CXR
- Elongated heart
- Flattening of diaphragms
- Prominent hilar vasculature
HRCT
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Pulmonary vascular disorders
|
Massive pulmonary embolism
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
- Reduced breath sounds
- Rales, crackles
- Loud P2
|
|
|
|
|
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation[2][3][4]
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
✔
|
−
|
|
|
CXR
- Round/oval mass
- Connecting vessel in hilum
- Hemothorax
|
|
|
Chest wall disorders
|
Flail chest
|
|
|
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
|
Cardiovascular
|
Pneumothorax
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
✔
|
−
|
−
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
|
Atrioventricular canal defect
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, Increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Ebstein anomaly
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Tetralogy of Fallot
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (systolic)
|
|
- CXR (Boot shaped heart, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Pulmonic stenosis
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (systolic)
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, decreased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
+ (Systolic)
|
|
- CXR (normal heart size and venous congestion but in patients without obstruction have cardiomegaly and increased pulmonary blood flow.)
|
|
|
|
Transposition of the great vessels
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
-
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Truncus arteriosus
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
±
|
|
|
sys/±dias
|
|
- CXR (Cardiac enlargement, increased pulmonary vascular markings)
|
|
|
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Heart failure
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
+
|
+
|
|
+
|
+
(S3)
|
|
- CXR
- Increase in heart size compared to the old film.
- Pleural fluid
- Interstitial edema
- Echocardiography
- Angiography
- Cardiac MRI
- Nuclear imaging
|
|
- Endomyocardial biopsy can be used when a specific diagnosis is suspected that would influence therapy in heart failure patients.
|
Valvular heart disease
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
±
|
−
|
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
Myocardial infarction
|
✔
|
|
✔
|
−
|
+
|
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
Central Nervous system
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Methemoglobinemia
|
|
✔
|
+
|
+
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Family history of methemoglobinemia or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is important to determine.
|
Polycythemia
|
|
✔
|
+
|
|
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
|
Tenderness in the sternum may indicate transformation to acute myeloid leukemia and should be properly investigated.
|
Disease
|
Peripheral
|
Central
|
Dyspnea
|
Fever
|
Chest pain
|
Clubbing
|
Peripheral edema
|
Auscultation
|
Lab Findings
|
Imaging
|
Gold standard
|
Additional findings
|
Breath holding spells
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- video-EEG monitoring can be use in non diagnostic cases.
|
|
- Cyanotic breath-holding spells most commonly occur around 1 year of age with a range of six months to four years.
- Iron deficiency anemia is more prevalent in children with breath-holding spells.
|
Miscellaneous
|
Shock
|
✔
|
|
+
|
+ (septic shock)
|
+
|
|
+ (Cardiogenic shock)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Smoke inhalation
|
|
|
+
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
Electrolytes
BUN and CR,
Lactate levels
Toxicology screen
CO-oximetry
|
|
|
- CO toxicity should be suspected in any patient who presents following smoke inhalation unless co-oximetry shows normal carboxyhemoglobin.
|
Cold exposure
|
✔
|
−
|
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
−
|
|
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- Mild hypothermia: core temperature 32 to 35°C ; patient presents with confusion, tachycardia, and increased shivering.
- Moderate hypothermia: 28 to 32°C patient presents with lethargy, bradycardia and arrhythmia and decreased shivering.
- Severe hypothermia: below 28°C patient presents with coma, hypotension, arrhythmia, pulmonary edema, and rigidity.
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Causes of cyanosis
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Cyanosis
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Clinical manifestations/association
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Diagnosis
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Additional
findings
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Symptoms
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Signs
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Peripheral
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Central
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Dyspnea
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Fever
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Chest pain
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Clubbing
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Peripheral edema
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Auscultation
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Lab Findings
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Imaging
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Gold standard
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Respiratory
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Airway
disorder
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Severe croup[5]
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✔
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−
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✔
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✔
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−
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−
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−
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Audible stridor at rest
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AP Neck X ray for soft tissues:
Lateral neck X ray:
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Clinical diagnosis
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- Croupy cough and stridor
- Intercostal, subcostal retractions
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Epiglottitis
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✔
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−
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✔
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✔
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−
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−
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−
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Stridor
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Lateral neck X ray
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Coma
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✔
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Seizures
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✔
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Head trauma
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✔
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Breath holding spells
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✔
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Miscellaneous
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Shock
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✔
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Smoke inhalation
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✔
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+
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+
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+
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Cold exposure
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✔
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−
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−
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−
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−
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−
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−
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−
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- CBC
- Fingerstick glucose (Hyperglycemia)
- EKG-
- J wave
- Sinus bradycardia
- Prolongation of all ECG intervals.
- Serum electrolytes -K+ and calcium
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- Mild hypothermia: core temperature 32 to 35°C ;
- Moderate hypothermia: 28 to 32°C
- Severe hypothermia: <28°C
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Drugs†
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−
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−
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−
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−
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−
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