Cardiology
This medication is first-line in acute bradycardia with a palpable pulse
What is atropine?
Any of these can be used for healthy persons with community-acquired pneumonia (3)
What is amoxicillin, doxycycline, or macrolide?
This subset of generalized seizures are characterized by inattentive staring spells
What are absence seizures?
This imaging modality can be used at the bedside to differentiate patients with shock
What is point-of-care ultrasonography?
Name a big number
Any number greater than 1 trillion
This infiltrative cardiac disease is diagnosed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium contrast
What is cardiac amyloidosis?
This should be suspected in groups of patients who have recently been exposed to a common water source with pulmonary symptoms
What is Legionella pneumonia?
This mononeuropathy is caused by compression due to frequent crossing of legs, weight loss, or trauma
What is peroneal mononeuropathy?
This medication is used in the treatment of malignant hyperthermia
What is dantrolene?
john has 10 candles and each candle can burn for 10 minutes. john then lights all of his candles. How long will the candles burn for?
100 minutes
This can be used to diagnose severe aortic stenosis in a patient with discrepant clinical and echocardiographic findings
What is cardiac catheterization?
Patients with disseminated herpes zoster should have these transmission-based precautions (2)
What are airborne and contact precautions?
This flaccid paralysis is a potential complication of prolonged hypotension during cardiovascular or aortic surgery
What is spinal cord infarction?
This medication is first-line in the treatment of anaphylaxis (Rx + route)
What is intramuscular epinephrine?
True or false (explain your answer) there is a hole located in your heart that you couldn't live without
True blood vessels and such
This cardiac tumor typically arises within the right atrium and is associated with a sanguinous pericardial effusion
What is cardiac angiosarcoma?
This drug is used for Cryptosporidium-associated diarrhea
What is nitazoxanide?
This Parkinson-plus syndrome characterized by symmetric parkinsonism, postural instability with early falls, and vertical oculomotor deficit
What is progressive supranuclear palsy?
This medication is a serotonin and histamine antagonist used in the treatment of serotonin syndrome
What is cyproheptadine?
Roll a d20
1-10 success
11-20 fail
Either of these can be used to diagnose severe mitral regurgitation in a patient with discrepant clinical and echocardiographic findings (2)
What is cardiac magnetic resonance imaging or transesophageal echocardiography?
Either of these drug regimens can be used to treat all species of malaria (2)
What is atovaquone-proguanil and quinine sulfate?
This is most sensitive and specific test for prion proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid
What is real-time quaking-induced conversion assay?
This medication is used in the treatment of toxicity from prolonged nitroprusside infusion
What is hydroxocobalamin?
What rough estimation is commonly used for the speed of light
3x10^8 m/s or c