ANOTHA ONE
Antibiotic can be used to prevent lung transplant rejection
Azithromycin
Greek physicians identified four personality types --sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic-- based on these 4 body fluids
blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm
These TWO anticoagulants are derived from pigs
heparin, lovenox
This antibiotic is used for hepatic encephalopathy
Rifaximin
Dr. Cohen’s lecture on ventilators always includes his favorite number. What is this number and what does it represent?
1.39 (mL of O2 bound to 1g of hemoglobin when it’s fully saturated)
Most common indication for lung transplant
German surgical resident Dr. Forssmann would later earn a Nobel prize for performing this innovative vascular procedure on himself for the first time in 1929, now performed routinely at MMC
cardiac cath
This animal’s urine is used in commercial production of conjugated estrogens
Horse
This antibiotic is used for COPD maintenance therapy
Azithromycin
Dr. Cohen asked you to calculate the Yang-Tobin index. How would you calculate and how would you use it?
It’s RSBI - rapid shallow breathing index, RR/TV during a weaning trial, used to decide the patient’s readiness to extubate
Median survival for lung transplant patient
6-7 years
Physician of the eponymous endocrine triad AND abdominal surgery
Whipple
Tirzepatide is based on a peptide found in the saliva of this animal
Gila Monster
Side effects of this antibiotic can mimic those of disulfiram
Metronidazole
Dr. Cohen asked you to hand him a size 8 ET tube. You reach into the bag with ET tubes and realize that you are dealing with a collection of defective tubes and none of them are marked with sizes. How would you figure out which ET tube is size 8?
The size 8 ET tube has the internal diameter of 8mm
This is an approximate percentage of donors that eventually become lung donors
25%
Nobody believed this disease was caused by infection until Dr. Barry Marshall applied Koch’s 3rd and 4th postulates on himself, thus proving the infectious etiology
PUD
The "Fab" in CroFab, a Crotalid venom antidote, is short for this.
Fragment Antigen Binding
This antifungal is used for prostate cancer
Ketoconazole
Dr. Cohen placed the ventilator in ‘expiratory hold’ mode. What is he trying to measure?
Auto PEEP
Prospective lung donors will routinely have ABGs done while on 100% O2 to test their suitability for donation. This is the cutoff PO2 value for suitability
300 mm Hg
Everyone knows Cushing's triad and Cushing's syndrome. But what does Cushing surgery treat?
Pituitary adenoma
This anticoagulant reversal agent is derived from purified salmon sperm
Protamine
This antibiotic can reverse valproate toxicity
Meopenem
Dr. Cohen gave a lecture on ventilators and mentioned ‘first generation’ ventilators that used a different method of airflow delivery to the patient’s lungs. What was the nickname he used for these devices?
Iron lung