The Black Lung
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(thoracic)
The subcarinal lymph node station level for mediastinoscopy.
What is Level 7?
This suture material was introduced in 1969 by Ethicon and revolutionized cardiac and vascular surgery due to its inert properties and resistance to degradation.
What is Prolene?
Most used adjuvant treatment for node positive melanoma.
What is Immunotherapy?
These two physiologic insults should be avoided at all costs while managing TBI.
What are hypotension and hypoxia?
Term used to describe paradoxical scope retraction with advancement during colonoscopy.
What is Looping?
This classification system that divides the liver into eight functionally independent segments, instrumental for surgical planning.
What is the Couinaud Classification?
Diagnosis for patient presenting with fever and cough and this CXR:
What is right middle lobe pneumonia?
This surgeon performed the first liver transplant in Denver, Colorado in 1967.
Who was Thomas Starzl?
Germline mutation associated with development of soft tissue sarcoma.
What is TP53?
Paralytic drug with rapid onset and short duration often used for ICU procedures.
What is Succinylcholine?
The classification system named after this west coast city is used to characterize esophagitis.
What is the Los Angeles Grading System?
Most common complication following a laparoscopic splenectomy.
What is portal vein thrombosis?
Source of blood supply for gastric conduit in an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy.
What is the Right Gastroepiploic Artery?
Country where the first therapeutic laparoscopic surgery was performed in 1983.
What is Germany? (Dr. Kurt Semm, appendectomy)
Depth of melanoma for which a sentinel node biopsy is indicated.
What is 0.8mm?
This ICP goal is generally recommended as a guideline for the management of severe TBI with an ICP monitor.
What is less than 22mmHg?
Intestinal metaplasia of the gastroesophageal junction.
What is Barrett’s Esophagus?
The confluence of the gastroepiploic vein and the middle colic vein upon entering the superior mesenteric vein.
What is the Common trunk of Henle (gastrocolic trunk)?
A condition in patients with pre-existing lung cavities.
What is Aspergilloma?
First trialed in 1982 at the University of Utah, this device involves removal of the human heart and replacement with a mechanical pump.
What is the Total Artificial Heart Device?
Histologic subtype of most common sarcoma in adults.
What is Leiomyosarcoma?
Increasing this metric for a ventilated patient will treat hypercarbia.
What is Minute Ventilation (MV = TV x RR)?
A patient with AIDS and odynophagia undergoes upper endoscopy with these findings.
What Candida Esophagitis?
Name of the consensus guidelines to risk stratify pancreatic IPMNs
What is the Fukuoka Criteria?
Adjuvant therapy for patients with EGFR+ NSCLC.
What is Osimertinib?
Renewed interest in xenotransplantation is credited to what novel gene editing technology.
What is CRISPR?
Iatrogenic cancer observed after breast irradiation.
What is Angiosarcoma?
Sedative alternative to benzos and propofol that agonizes alpha-2 receptors with minimal impact on blood pressure.
What is Dexometomidate?
Recommended margin size for observation after endoscopic resection of a malignant colon polyp.
What is 2mm?
Recommended future liver remnant size for a Child’s A cirrhotic undergoing hepatectomy
What 40%?