Medications
This NSAID is first‑line for renal colic and given 15 mg IV or 30 mg IM
What is Toradol (ketorolac)?
A patient presents with fever, hypotension, tachycardia, altered mental status, and a history of a recent UTI. They now show signs of sepsis originating from the urinary tract.
What is urosepsis?
This is the reason epinephrine improves coronary blood flow during anaphylaxis.
What is alpha‑adrenergic vasoconstriction increasing diastolic pressure?
the ability of an organism to invade and create disease in a host; also referred to the ability of an organism to survive outside the living host
Virulence
This sign is flank ecchymosis indicating retroperitoneal hemorrhage.
What is Grey Turner sign?
This hormone treats hypoglycemia when IV access is unavailable.
What is glucagon?
This condition presents with flank pain, fever, and unstable vitals due to kidney inflammation.
What is pyelonephritis?
his immune response occurs only after prior sensitization to an allergen.
What is an allergic reaction (antibody‑mediated hypersensitivity)?
This sign occurs when the patient cannot extend the knee due to meningeal irritation.
What is Kernig’s sign?
This condition results from portal hypertension and causes sudden vomiting of bright red blood.
What are esophageal varices?
This antifibrinolytic must be given within 3 hours of trauma.
What is TXA?
This condition causes toxins to accumulate due to sudden decreased filtration through the glomeruli.
What is acute kidney injury?
This is the most dangerous positional change for a patient in anaphylactic shock.
What is moving from supine to upright/standing?
This disease is communicable only when an active lung lesion is present and bacteria are expelled by coughing.
What is tuberculosis?
This condition may cause sudden severe lower abdominal pain and shock if internal bleeding occurs.
What is a ruptured ovarian cyst?
This medication increases cAMP independent of beta‑receptors, helping in beta‑blocker overdose.
What is glucagon?
This syndrome occurs during dialysis when water shifts into CSF, increasing ICP.
What is disequilibrium syndrome?
This is the physiologic reason IM epinephrine is preferred over SQ in anaphylaxis.
What is faster absorption due to better vascularity of muscle?
This virus can survive outside the body for 7 days and has a 60–90 day incubation period.
What is Hepatitis B?
Weak pelvic structures from decreased estrogen, obesity, or childbirth increase risk for this condition.
What is uterine prolapse?
This medication is contraindicated in patients who received PCCs, factor VIIa, or are <16 years old.
What is TXA?
A patient with chronic alcohol use presents with sudden hematemesis, hypotension, and a history of liver disease. They report a “weird feeling” in their throat before vomiting blood. You suspect a condition caused by portal hypertension.
What are esophageal varices?
This is the most dangerous complication of changing an anaphylactic patient from supine to standing.
What is cardiovascular collapse?
This sign is present when flexing the neck causes involuntary knee flexion.
What is Brudzinski’s sign?
A patient presents with sudden severe epigastric pain radiating to the back, worsened by lying flat and relieved by leaning forward. They are tachycardic, hypotensive, and vomiting. You note muscle spasms in the extremities due to hypocalcemia, and bruising around the umbilicus. This condition results from autodigestion when digestive enzymes cannot exit through a blocked duct.
What is pancreatitis?