Eyes
ENT
Common Symptoms
General Medicine
Niche Medical Trivia
100
What does B. point to?
Sclera
100
Name these bones. (Need all 3)
Malleus, Incus, and Stapes
100
What is the maximum amount of time a cough may be present to be called "subacute?"
8 weeks
Subacute is 3-8 weeks.
100
First Line treatment for pure hypertriglyceridemia.
Fenofibrates
100
What is the 5th chamber in a 5 chamber view of the heart?
Aortic Valve/Aorta
200
What is Blepharitis?
Eyelid inflammation
200
A Weber test that lateralizes to the affected ear indicates what?
Conductive hearing loss
200
When getting labs to workup fatigue, in addition to a CBC/CMP, what lab should be obtained?
TSH
200
Are vital signs valid indicators of pain? If not, what is the best method of assessing pain?
No, Behavioral Measures and Self Reporting is the gold standard
200
Which mental illness was once called melancholia?
Depression
300
What is the largest modifiable risk factor for age-related macular degeneration.
Smoking
300
First Line topical vasoconstrictor for Epistaxis
Oxymetazoline (brand name Afrin)
300
What is the first line therapy for insomnia?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
300
What types of pain should medical cannabis be considered in?
Weak recommendation for those experiencing moderate to severe chronic pain as well as those with cancer related chronic pain.
300
Protamine Sulfate was originally derived from which animal product?
Salmon Sperm
400
What condition is characterized by transient monocular vision loss caused by temporary retinal ischemia?
Amaurosis fugax
400
Most common causative pathogen of Epiglottitis
Strep pneumoniae
400
What is the primary method of treating venous ulcers and what is the absolute contraindication?
Compression Therapy
ABI less than or equal to 0.5.
400
Is patient confidentiality absolute? If not, please provide an example in which it is not.
Mandatory reporters, certain infectious diseases, therapeutic privilege (withholding cancer diagnosis from an actively suicidal patient example)
400
Why is baby aspirin 81mg? Why the strange mg count?
A full dose aspirin used to be "5 grains of barleycorn", and a baby aspirin is 1/4 of that. So 325 is a full dose and 81mg is 1/4 of that.
500
What syndrome is characterized by unilateral miosis, anhidrosis, and ptosis?
Horner's Syndrome
500
Most effective treatment for Tinnitis.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
500
What is the first line treatment for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and how does it work?
Epley maneuver, and it repositions the canaliths in the ear.
500
Xanthomas are associated with which GI condition?
Primary Biliary Cholangitis
500
What congenital brain pathology is associated with immunity to schizophrenia?
Congenital cortical blindness