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How do you complete brain death testing in patients who cannot tolerate apnea testing and are unable to transport for ancillary testing?

For instance, if the patient doesn’t tolerate apnea testing, is too unstable to go for ancillary testing outside the ICU, and TCDs/EEG are unava...

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Would you give checkpoint inhibitor therapy to a cancer patient with known dermatomyositis given the association of checkpoint inhibitor associated myocarditis, myasthenia gravis, and myositis?

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What is your preferred first line treatment for chronic fatigue in patients with long Covid?

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What is your preferred steroid sparing therapy in a patient experiencing a severe checkpoint inhibitor toxicity and not responding to high dose IV steroids?

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What workup do you do for patients who have PL-7 elevation when screening for myopathy?

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How do you sequence pharmacologic treatments for primary insomnia?

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Do you routinely recommend a sleep study in patients with clinical history of REM-sleep behavior disorder?

Does this add any value?

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Papers discussed in this category

Sleep Med Rev, 2021 Jun 10

REM sleep behavior disorder: Mimics and variants.

JAMA,

Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria: The World Brain Death Project.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2017-06-01

A longitudinal cohort study of the anti-synthetase syndrome: increased severity of interstitial lung disease in black patients and patients with anti-PL7 and anti-PL12 autoantibodies.

Autoimmun Rev, 2012 Jul 05

Hierarchical cluster and survival analyses of antisynthetase syndrome: phenotype and outcome are correlated with anti-tRNA synthetase antibody specificity.

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