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51. ATT Liver Injury and Rechallenge | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Decides whether the liver injury on ATT is drug-induced, what to hold, what to bridge with while the enzymes settle, and in what order to rechallenge. Follows NTEP and APASL.

    Clinical decision support 2,129 words
52. Acute Hypokalaemia Protocol | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Replace, replenish, resolve. How fast the potassium can go, by which route, and what has to be corrected alongside it before it will hold.

    Clinical decision support 2,933 words
53. Acute Hyponatraemia Protocol | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Assess, then correct at a rate that will not cause osmotic demyelination. Gates the correction by severity and works from the Adrogue-Madias equations.

    Clinical decision support 3,255 words
54. Anaemia Indices and Discrimination | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Classifies the anaemia on the WHO thresholds and runs eight red cell discrimination indices side by side, with the reticulocyte production index.

    Clinical decision support 4,081 words
55. HPV Vaccination and Screening | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Who to vaccinate against HPV, at what age and in how many doses, alongside the screening that still has to happen.

    Clinical decision support 2,264 words
56. Liver Fibrosis: FIB-4 and Elastography | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    FIB-4 and APRI on the blood count, then the elastography report read against the cause, and what follows when the two stages disagree.

    Clinical decision support 7,777 words
57. MAP, Shock Index and Pulse Pressure | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Mean arterial pressure, pulse pressure and the shock index from one set of vitals, built to find the patient who is compensating.

    Clinical decision support 3,486 words
58. Pregnancy VTE Exclusion Pathway | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Excluding VTE in pregnancy, where the usual rules do not hold. Uses the pregnancy-adapted YEARS algorithm and the LEFt rule.

    Clinical decision support 1,983 words
59. Tetanus Wound Prophylaxis Pathway | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Classifies the wound, then decides between Td, Tdap and tetanus immunoglobulin from the immunisation history.

    Clinical decision support 2,679 words
60. Thyrotoxicosis Diagnosis and Titration | MEDiscuss CDSS

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    Reads TSH, FT4, FT3 and the clinical signs to work out the aetiology of the thyrotoxicosis, and titrates the treatment against it.

    Clinical decision support 1,985 words