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This cannula with a spring mechanism was first invented by a Hungarian pulmonologist to treat tuberculosis.
What is a Veres needle?
While visiting its famous wall, Dora is also brushing up on this city’s criteria used to diagnose ARDS.
Where is Berlin?
This trauma scoring system predicting the need for extremity amputation includes age, length of limb ischemia, shock and injury mechanism
What is the mangled extremity score?
Use of this medication during sentinel lymph node biopsy has the noted side of discoloration of urine and transient decrease in pulse oximetry readings following administration.
What is methylene blue?
A known side effect of this medication, transient adrenal insufficiency and cortisol suppression can last for up to 72 hours after administration.
What is etomidate?
Intra-abdominal pressure is measured during laparoscopy to avoid compression of this structure.
What is the IVC?
Pasta is a must for Dora in this Italian city which is the namesake for transplant criteria in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Where is Milan?
Posterior hip dislocations put patients at risk for injury to this structure which can resulted in lower leg weakness.
What is the sciatic nerve?
This vascular disease results from showering of arterial microemboli distally into the lower extremity giving this classic-colored finding.
What is blue toe syndrome?
This now approved anesthetic reversal agent faced initial delays in FDA approval due to reported hypersensitivity reactions.
What is sugammadex?
The open technique for entering the peritoneum was first described by this OBGYN of Egyptian descent.
Who is Harrith M. Hasson?
Within a short distance of the U.S. Capital, Dora is enjoying visiting our national monuments while reviewing this thyroid pathology grading system.
Where is Bethesda?
Wrist drop is a sign of this concomitant injury following a distal 1/3 spiral humerus fracture.
What is radial nerve injury?
Known as blue baby syndrome, surgery to correct this cardiac malformation was first performed at Johns Hopkins in 1944.
What is Tetralogy of Fallot?
This autologous treatment can be used to help patients with post-epidural puncture headache.
What is a blood patch?
In men, when performing a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, these boundaries define the triangle of doom.
What are the vas deferens, the testicular/gonadal vessesls, and the peritoneal fold?
She is still too young for college, but Dora is exploring this private University in California with a classification system for aortic dissection named after it?
Where is Stanford?
This high spine fracture which shares a name with a U.S. President involves injury to both anterior and posterior arches of the C1 vertebrae.
What is a Jefferson fracture?
Shortness of breath, cyanosis and mental status changes are all signs of this hematologic condition conversion of iron from the ferrous to ferric state in hemoglobin.
What is methemoglobinemia?
Targeting NMDA receptors this anesthetic agent has both pain and amnestic effects.
What is ketamine?
This anesthetic gas was previously used to achieve pneumoperitoneum in the 70-80's, but reports of combustion limited its use in modern practice.
What is nitrous oxide?
Dora is enjoying her kilt in this Scottish city with a neurologic scale commonly used in trauma named after it.
Where is Glasgow?
The total number of compartments in the hand which can be affected by hand compartment syndrome.
What is ten?
Blue sclera is a common ocular manifestation in this bony genetic disease which is frequently misdiagnosed as child abuse due to frequent fracture early in childhood.
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
This rare anesthetic syndrome causing cardiac failure, rhabdomyolysis, metabolic acidosis, and kidney failure can be seen in patients with prolonged exposure to a commonly used lipophilic IV sedation.
What is propofol infusion syndrome?