Neurology

Pulmonology

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What is your preferred first-line treatment for chronic fatigue in patients with long COVID-19?

In what clinical scenarios do you utilize post-cardiac arrest targeted temperature management (TTM)?

In the span between the HACA trial and the Targeted Temperature Management in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest study (Dankiewicz et al., PMID 34133859),...

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In patients being evaluated for brain death, which abnormal movements are definitively known to still be consistent with brain death and which are possibly consistent with brain death but lack definitive evidence?

What are the sources for this and are they reliable by today’s standards? Numerous case series report various abnormal movements but how reliabl...

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How do you workup patients with neuropathy suspected to be secondary to sarcoid?

Is a biopsy or EMG helpful in confirming the etiology? What is the best treatment for sarcoid neuropathy?

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What blood pressure targets do you enforce in the first 24-48 hours in a patient who develops an intracranial hemorrhage after mechanical thrombectomy?

Blood pressure targets for ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage are described in several guidelines. However, in patients with acute stroke wh...

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How do you sequence pharmacologic treatments for primary insomnia?

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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 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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