Dexa score not relevant to health of an older woman.
What is the Z score?
100
Medicare limit on medication in SNF.
What is nine medications per patient?
100
Six skills of managing personal environment
What are ADLs?
100
Frontotemporal dementia.
What is memory loss associated with loss of inhibition and social mistakes?
200
High fever and delirium after withdrawal from psychotropic.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
200
Age when routine dexa screening starts per USPSTF.
What is 65 years old?
200
Four high risk psychotropic classes per NIMH for risk of falls
What are TCA's, Benzodiazepines,Phenothiazines and barbituates ?
200
Timed test of physical function with goal less than 30 seconds
What is the "Get up and Go Test"?
200
Medicare rules in SNF about psychotropics and psychiatry consults
What are the OBRA regulations?
300
Headache , jaw pain and stiff neck for several weeks in a person over 50 .
What is temporal arteritis?
300
USPSTF Recommendation for persons over 65 ith HTN and hyperlipidemia.
What is screen for diabetes?
300
Specific three medications associated with significant relationship for risk of falls on meta analyses.
What are type IA antiarrythmnic agents, digoxin and diurectic ?
300
BMI range for men and women over age 70 considered healthy and preventive
What is 25-27?
300
Dementia with fine tremor and significant sensitivity to most psychotropics.
What is dementia with Lewy-Body?
400
Low frequency sensinural hearing loss, tinnitus and occasional nausea re-presenting as symptoms in old age
What is Meniere's disease ?
400
USPSTF Recommendation for men with 10 year cardiovascualr risk of 6-10%
What is prophylactic aspirin 75 mg a day if not allergic?
400
List of medications developed in 1991 with evidence based risks for the person over 65.
What are Beer's Criteria.Max Beer, M.D. died in 2009 at age 54.
400
The CAGE questionaire
What is a four question screen for alcoholism?
400
In the Mnemonic DEMENTIA for reversible dementia what do the letters I and A stand for?
What are infection and anemia?
500
A scale to assess risk for stroke for persons with atrial fibrillation if warfarin is not used.
What is CHADS2
500
Four of seven rated symptoms of prostatism in the IPSS
What are incomplete emptying, frequency, intermittency,urgency, weak stream, straining, and nocturia?
500
Only specific anxiolytic allowed in SNF without a psychiatrist
What is buspirone? ( Buspar) used for anxiety and agitation of demented persons
500
In the Mnenomic DRIP for acute urinary incontinence the letters DRIP have meaning. The resident asked to see a patient with new urinary incontinence knows the meaning for the four letters.
What are drugs/delirium, retention/restraints, infection impaction, and polyuria/prostatitis?
500
For the differential diagnosis of delirium there is an mnemonic DELIRIUM which includes drugs and sensory problems.Many contributing factors may cause delirium. Most concerning are conditions represented by the letters U and M in DELIRIUM.
What are Underhydration/ undernutrition and Metabolic causes of delirium?