Pulm/ICU
This is the variable that is manually adjusted when a ventilator is on AC/VC
What is volume?
This is the diagnosis that explains the following labs:
Hb low, MCV 72
Low Fe levels
Normal ferritin level
Normal TIBC
What is anemia of chronic/inflammatory disease?
Start at time of diagnosis!
Lateral knee pain in a runner
First line therapy for UC
What is a 5-aminosalicylate (eg mesalamine)
This is the first-line agent to administer in cases of symptomatic bradycardia
What is atropine?
Fondaparinux should avoided under this CrCl
What is a CrCl <30
This is the class of diabetes mellitus medication that should be considered in those who have an elevated BMI seeking to lose weight
What is GLP-1 agonists?
Spontaneous vertigo after a viral illness
What is vestibular neuronitis
A stool test that can help differentiate between osmotic and secretory diarrhea
What is stool osmotic gap
290 - 2(stool Na + stool K)
What is a CD4 count <200?
(In HIV-uninfected patients, prednisone >20mg/d for one month)
What is AT-III deficiency?
What is a pregnancy test
Conservative measures for managing chronic venous insufficiency
What are exercise/weight loss, leg elevation, and compression stockings
A patient s/p gastric bypass p/w with diarrhea, bloating, high folate, low B12
What is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
These are the clinical features seen in neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome
What is hyperthermia, mental status changes, rigidity. SS also has hyperreflexia and myoclonus
This is the antibody implicated in the AstraZeneca vaccine's rare complication of thrombocytopenia with thrombosis
What is anti-PF4?
Preferred agent to treat osteoporosis in patients with CKD
What is denosumab
Recommendation for PCV13 vaccination in a 65 yo w/ HF who has already received PPSV23
What is shared decision making (not required/no recommendation)
Fever, jaundice, RUQ pain, confusion, and hypotension
What is Reynold's Pentad
These are the two main causes of NMS
1) Antipsychotics (idiosyncratic reaction - anytime, any dose, usually initiation/changing dose)
2) Withdrawing Parkinsons medications (Levodopa, etc)
DAILY DOUBLE
These are the 4 criteria categories to diagnose heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
-- DO NOT need to know detail numbers --
What is
1) Platelet count fall + nadir
2) Timing of platelet count fall
3) Thrombosis or other sequela
4) Other causes of thrombocytopenia
Next test in a woman with hirsutism and serum testosterone >200
What is imaging (CT, MRI, or ultrasound looking for adrenal and ovarian tumors)
FIGO classification for causes of abnormal uterine bleeding?
What is PALM-COEIN
(polyp, adenomyosis, leiomyoma, malignancy and hyperplasia, coagulopathy, ovulatory dysfunction, endometrial, iatrogenic, not yet classified)
Thick gastric folds + protein losing enteropathy + N/V/D
What is Menetrier's disease