Team what's happening zak here for med geeks welcome back so today we're going to discuss

toxic shock syndrome you probably just

not mental cycle related.

Actually, half of the reported cases are actually not

mentorelated.

The mentorelated cases actually declined when certain types

of Tamons were taken off the shelves. Regardless, when you hear the words

toxic shock syndrome, get concerned and get worried.

Hopefully you don't have to ever make this diagnosis because it's quite lethal.

I've seen it one time in my career so far and it obviously didn't end up well. So I'll break it down by

intro, etiology, clinical presentation, work up in diagnosis, differential,

and lastly management. So what is toxic Shock Syndrome? Well, it was first described in 1978 and it was seen in children in pediatric cases.

So over the years, you know, the definition of the of toxic shock syndrome is kind of

been revised by the CDC, very similar in nature, but the last update was done in

2011. The general kind of definition is it's a clinical syndrome

characterized by rapid onset fever, rash, hypotension, and multi organ failure.

Three or more systems. AK it's bad things. You just don't want to have this.

I'll break down, you know what I mean by multi-organ failure shortly, but it's a syndrome of rapid onset fever. RASH is key here, rash, rash, rash,

hypotension and multi organ failure.

So just think of that patient that comes in with,

man, all of a sudden I had this hybrid fever,

I got this kind of red rash starting and their blood pressure is a little low. And then after that,

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