The med game.
This is the first line treatment for hypothyroidism.
What is levothyroxine?
These are small pea-shaped glands on the thyroid gland.
What are the parathyroid glands?
This is the recommended daily dosage of calcium for women 51 - 70.
What is 1,200 mg?
This is when there is a deficiency of cortisol, aldosterone, and adrenal androgens.
What is Addison's Disease?
This is an autoimmune destruction of pancreatic cells resulting in absolute insulin deficiency. The patient's lifestyle or weight has no bearing on this diagnosis.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This is the treatment for hyperthyroidism.
What is thionamide?
What is methimazole?
What is Tapazole?
This occurs when you have an elevated TSH but a low T4/T3 ratio. The patient will experience fatigue, bradycardia, and weight gain.
What is hypothyroidism?
The toxicity of this fat-soluble vitamin, which is necessary for calcium absorption by the bones, includes hypercalcemia, nausea, vomiting, and potential kidney damage.
What is vitamin D?
This occurs after a thyroidectomy for Graves' Disease or thyroid cancer.
What is hypothyroidism?
This is the recommended A1c of a patient taking oral diabetic medications.
What is less than 7%
This is the condition that somatropin (Humatrope) is used to treat.
What are growth disorders?
What is growth hormone?
This occurs when a patient has low TSH and high T4/T3. They will experience anxiety, heat intolerance, and tachycardia.
What is hyperthyroidism?
This is the treatment for hypercalcemia, which inhibits the release of calcium from bones into the bloodstream. Monitoring of calcium is needed while taking this medication.
What is Miacalcin?
What is Fortical?
This is the class of medication used to treat Addison's disease. It replaces endogenous cortisol but has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects. A side effect of this class of medications is elevated glucose production. You must not stop these drugs abruptly; you need to be tapered off.
What is Glucocorticoids?
This is a rapid-acting insulin and should be administered immediately before the patient eats, as its onset is 10-20 minutes. This insulin peaks 30-90 minutes after administration.
What is lispro?
What is Humalog?
This is a plant-derived Vitamin D, also called Vitamin D2.
What is ergocalciferol?
This medication is used to treat hypothyroidism by mimicking the endogenous thyroid hormone, which converts T4 to the active T3, thereby restoring normal metabolic function.
What is levothyroxine?
What is Synthroid?
For osteoporosis prevention, what does calcium carbonate require that calcium citrate does not?
What is stomach acid?
This is the treatment for Graves' disease, used to destroy thyroid tissue.
What is Radioactive Iodine, Sodium Iodine I-131?
Early signs of this diabetic condition are shakiness, sweating, and tachycardia.
What is Hypoglycemia?
This is the medication used to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis. The patient must stay upright for at least 30 minutes and must take it with at least 8 ounces of water.
What is Alendronate?
What is Fosamax?
This is the medication to treat hyperthyroidism. It inhibits the enzyme responsible for suppressing the synthesis of T3 and T4.
What is methimazole?
What is Tapazole?
The parathyroid glands secrete a hormone responsible for absorbing this electrolyte from the intestines and removing it from the bones to treat hypocalcemia.
What is calcium?
This oral diabetic medication does not stimulate insulin secretion, which reduces the risk of hypoglycemia when used alone. One important thing to know about this medication is that it should be held for 1-2 days before a procedure involving contrast dye.
What is metformin?
What is Glucophage?
This insulin has an onset of 60 - 70 minutes, does not peak, and provides glucose control for 24 hours. It can be given once or twice a day.
What is glargine?
What is Lantus?
What is Toujeo?