PHARM FRENZY
This class of drugs is commonly prescribed for hypertension and works by blocking certain adrenergic receptors and may lower heart rate?
What are beta blockers?
True or False: Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis.
What is False? (No evidence links knuckle cracking to arthritis.)
When assessing for appendicitis, pain in the right lower quadrant after palpating the left lower quadrant is called this sign.
What is Rovsing’s sign?
In the sitcom Friends, Ross has a PhD in this field, not medicine.
What is paleontology?
This triad—fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status—is classic for what condition?
What is meningitis?
This class of antibiotics should never be taken with dairy products because calcium interferes with its absorption.
What are cyclines? (doxycyline, tetracycline, minocycline)
Eating carrots will dramatically improve your night vision.
What is False? (Carrots contain vitamin A, which supports vision, but they don’t give superhuman night vision.)
A positive Murphy’s sign during abdominal palpation suggests inflammation of this organ.
What is the gallbladder?
BONUS: Describe Murphy's sign and the anatomy involved
In ER, Dr. Greene explains the ABCs of trauma care. What do the letters stand for?
What are Airway, Breathing, Circulation?
A patient with tremor, tachycardia, and heat intolerance may have this endocrine condition.
What is hyperthyroidism?
Patients taking warfarin should avoid excessive intake of this vitamin found in leafy greens.
What is Vitamin K?
You should wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming.
What is False? (There’s no strong evidence that eating before swimming causes cramps.)
Pain elicited when the examiner taps lightly over the costovertebral angle suggests this condition.
What is pyelonephritis?
In Grey’s Anatomy, Cristina Yang assists in a surgery for a patient with this congenital heart defect often repaired in childhood.
What is Tetralogy of Fallot?
Your patient’s skin turns yellow and they’re not a Simpsons character, abdominal pain, BP 80/40, HR 125, Temp 38.5, and A&Ox1- they have this diagnosis
What is Ascending Cholangitis?
BONUS: What is the name of these symptoms?
Loop diuretics (like furosemide) can most commonly lead to depletion of this important electrolyte.
What is potassium?
Shaving makes hair grow back thicker and darker
What is False? (Shaving doesn’t change hair thickness or color; it just blunts the tip.)
When assessing for carpal tunnel syndrome, tapping over the median nerve at the wrist is called this test.
What is Tinel’s sign?
In House, M.D., a patient with confusion and hyponatremia is ultimately diagnosed with this endocrine disorder.
What is Addison’s disease?
If your patient’s tongue looks like a strawberry but they’re not at a picnic, this could be a sign of this illness.
What is scarlet fever (or Kawasaki disease)?
This medication class used for acute migraine treatment can cause Hypertensive Urgency because of it's blood vessel constriction MOA
What are Triptans (Sumatriptan; serotonin receptor agonists)
If you have diverticulitis, you should avoid nuts, seeds, and popcorn
What is False?
This maneuver, used in cardiac exams, involves having the patient sit up and lean forward while you listen at the left sternal border looks for what condition?
What is auscultation for aortic regurgitation?
In Season 3’s “What I Am”, Meredith painlessly collapses due to appendicitis. Which imaging is typically first to confirm suspicion in the ED?
What is a CT abdomen/pelvis with contrast?
(She later gets diagnosed and treated.)
If your patient’s pupils look like they’ve been to a rave (huge and dilated), suspect this drug class toxicity.
What is anticholinergic toxicity?