Fluid/Electrolytes
Normal BUN and creatinine levels help assess this organ’s function.
What is the kidney?
This condition is characterized by consistently elevated blood pressure, often without symptoms, and is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure.
What is Hypertension?
Painful or difficult urination
What is dysuria.
This condition occurs when the thyroid gland produces insufficient thyroid hormones, leading to symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, cold intolerance, and constipation.
What is hypothyroidism?
This sign is positive when a patient experiences resistance and pain when attempting to extend the leg while the thigh is flexed on the abdomen.
What is the Kernig's sign?
Normal K+ level?
What is 3.5-5.0?
The type of lymphoma marked by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells.
What is Hodgkin's lymphoma?
The type of precautions used for tuberculosis.
What are airborne precautions?
This sign is a spasm of the cheek when tapped.
What is Chvostek’s sign?
This is the best position to promote venous return and reduce edema in a patient with peripheral vascular disease.
What is elevating the legs above heart level?
Men having symptoms of dysuria, hesitancy, sensation of incomplete bladder emptying
What is BPH.
General muscle hypertonia, with tremor
and spasmodic or uncoordinated contractions
occurring with or without efforts to make
voluntary movements
What is Tetany?
This condition is characterized by a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain, which can lead to convulsions, loss of consciousness, or unusual sensations.
What is a seizure?
What is a normal HGB level ?
12.0-18 g/dL
This autoimmune disease affects the joints symmetrically.
What is rheumatoid arthritis (RA)?
The most common symptom of a mild allergic reaction.
What is a rash or hives?
ECG finding associated with hyperkalemia.
What is peaked T waves?
This condition occurs when the heart is unable to pump effectively, leading to symptoms such as shortness of breath, fluid retention, fatigue, and edema, often due to underlying coronary artery disease or hypertension.
What is heart failure?
Organ that secretes enzymes that digest
proteins and carbohydrates
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
What is the small intestine.
This autoimmune disorder leads to hyperthyroidism, causing symptoms like weight loss, rapid heartbeat, heat intolerance, and bulging eyes, often due to the overproduction of thyroid hormones.
What is Graves disease?
This is the most common cause of seizures in children.
What is a high fever (febrile seizure)?
What is a normal calcium level?
8.5-10.5 mg/dL
This type of cell is gradually destroyed by HIV, weakening the immune system.
What are CD4+ T cells?
Osteomyelitis is an infection of this.
What is bone?
This term refers to fluid shifting into spaces not readily available for circulation, such as the abdomen or peritoneal cavity.
What is third spacing
This term refers to the resistance the heart must overcome to eject blood during systole, and it is often influenced by arterial pressure and vascular tone.
What is afterload?
Conveys urine from the bladder to the exterior
What is the urethra.
What is secreted in response to high plasma calcium levels and increases calcium deposit in bone.
What is calcitonin?
This condition causes symptoms such as headache, fever, changes in level of consciousness, behavioral changes, nuchal rigidity, positive Kernig and Brudzinski signs, and photophobia.
What is meningitis?
Normal EF?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is 50-70%
This disease can cause inflammation anywhere in the GI tract from mouth to anus.
What is Crohn’s disease?
This is the first drug given during an anaphylactic reaction.
What is epinephrine?
This electrolyte is the primary intracellular cation and plays a key role in muscle contraction and nerve function.
What is potassium
The valve does not open completely, and
blood flow through the valve is reduced
What is Stenosis?
Medication that turn urine orange to orange-red urine
What is Pyridium.
This condition is caused by prolonged exposure to high levels of cortisol, leading to symptoms like weight gain, a round face, purple striae, and muscle weakness.
What is Cushing's symdrome?
This condition involves inflammation of the brain, often caused by viral infections such as herpes simplex virus (HSV) or fungal infections, and can lead to symptoms like fever, confusion, seizures, and neurological deficits.
What is encephalitis?
What are normal BPN levels?
<100 pg/mL
Complication of ulcerative colitis that may require emergency surgery.
What is toxic megacolon?
Crohn’s disease is known for this type of lesion pattern in the bowel.
What are skip lesions?