Sub-specialties
EMERGENCY Medicine
SPOT DIAGNOSIS
Recall
TYPICAL GHANAIAN MOMENT: SAY IT RIGHT!
100
This sub-specialty of internal medicine diagnoses and treats diseases of the kidneys and urinary system.
What is nephrology
100

Pulseless CARDIAC arrest occurs due to 4 cardiac rhythms?

What are ventricular fibrillation (VF), ventricular tachycardia (VT)
, asystole and pulseless electrical activity (PEA)

100

A) pleuritic chest pain: alleviated by sitting up and leaning forward

B) ±fever,malaise

C) Diagnostic triad: chest pain, friction rub and ECG changes (diffuse ST elevation and PR depression with reciprocal changes in aVR)

What is ACUTE PERICARDITIS

100

Normal range arterial blood gases PH

What is 

                                             

7.35-7.45

                                   


    

100

BOFROT

    

what is BUFFLOAF?

200
This sub-specialist focuses on the care of patients with disorders of the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic systems.
What is a hematologist
200

SHOCKABLE RHYTHMS IN CARDIAC ARREST PROTOCOLS ARE

WHAT ARE VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA AND FIBRILLATION

200
  • Classic Quartet of 
  • • Hypotension
• Increased JVP
• Tachycardia
  • Pulsus Paradoxus

What is CARDIAC TAMPONADE

200

A well known, but fictional general internist - also the reason for a mortgage.

What is house

200

                                                                      ONE LOGO LOGO LINE

What is ONE HOMOLOGOUS LINE?

300
A sub-specialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnoses and care of the glandular system and associated metabolic dysfunction.
What is endocrinology
300

FIRST LINE DRUG OF CHOICE TO MANAGE SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

What is Adenosine

300

THESE TRIPLETS....

HYPOTENSION

INCREASED JVP

MUFFLED HEART SOUNDS

What is BECKS TRIAD

300

NORMAL SERUM POTASSIUM LEVEL

What is 

        What is                                        

3.5-5.5 mmol/L

                                   


    

300

KALABULE                                        


    

WHAT IS CLEVER BULLY?

400
A sub-specialist one might see after a myocardial infarction.
What is a cardiologist
400

Reversible causes of PEA arrest are ......

What are 5Hs and 5Ts

■ 5 Hs: hypothermia, hypovolemia, hypoxia, hydrogen ions (acidosis), hypo/hyperkalemia

5 Ts: tamponade (cardiac), thrombosis (pulmonary), thrombosis (coronary), tension 
pneumothorax, toxins (overdose/poisoning)

400

IN DERMATOLOGY......                 

 This extend beyond margins of original injury with claw-like extensions
whiles this is  confined to original margins of injury    
                        

What are Keloids vs. Hypertrophic Scars

400

FORMULA FOR OSMOLALITY AND Normal serum OSMOLALITY VALUES

What is 

  What is 

OSMOLALITY= 2 SODIUM + 2 POTASSIUM + GLUCOSE + UREA

275-300 mOsm/kg

                                   


    

400

CAMBOO

WHAT IS CAMP BOOT?

500
The sub-specialist one might see for gout or systemic lupus erythematosus.
What is a rheumatologist
500

FIRST LINE DRUG OF CHOICE FOR MANAGING BRADYARRHYTHMIA

What is ATROPINE

500

          IN DERMATOLOGY.......                                     This is  Superficial, intraepidermal, flaccid lesions......

whiles this is     Deeper, tense lesions at the dermal-epidermal junction

    

What are Pemphigus vulgaris vrs Bullous pemphigoid

500

NORMAL LEVELS OF RETICULOCYTES

What is

       What is                                         

0.5-2.5% of RBC

                                   


    

500

GALAMSEY

What is GATHER THEM AND SELL?

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