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Welcome back clinical problem solvers.

I am so, so excited for our third episode of our space learning series.

As always, I'm here with two of my favorite people and also co-host, Arsano and Dan.

Hey, folks.

So just a quick reminder in these episodes, we'll review content that has been previously covered, but we'll approach it from a different angle, highlight another disease

processes, and of course, try to share as many pearls as we can. Our goal in these episodes

is to reinforce these often complicated topics so that when you see this in clinic or on the wards, you're ready to activate your schema.

Without further ado, let me introduce our case.

We have a 25-year-old man with a history of sickle cell disease who presented to the ED with a four-day history of fevers, chills,

night sweats, and diffuse body aches.

All righty.

Let's start with the fever.

So the fever signals underlying inflammation to me.

And common things being common, I always think of sources of infection in a febrile patient first.

I personally find the CP solvers infection in hospitalized patient schema really helpful. The 1.0 version covers most common size of infection.

Actually, R.C., you have a really great way of remembering these. Do you want to share us with everyone?

Thanks for the other you.

Yeah, so these include six possible sources that I consider on the first pass,

and I use sites that are exposed to the environment as a reminder of where these sites are.

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