Infectious disease
This anti-MRSA antibiotic should NOT be used to treat pneumonia because it is inactivated by pulmonary surfactant.
What is Daptomycin?
For most ambulatory adults age 65 years and older with hypertension, treatment generally aims for a blood pressure below this threshold when tolerated.
What is <130/80 mmHg?
This clinical scoring system estimates the pretest probability of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia based on thrombocytopenia, timing, thrombosis, and other causes of platelet decline.
What is the 4Ts Score?
This antibiotic class should generally be avoided in patients with known aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection because of an increased risk of aortic rupture or dissection.
What are fluoroquinolones?
Before giving TNK for acute ischemic stroke, blood pressure must be below this threshold
What is 185/110 mmHg?
Successful serologic response after treatment of syphilis is generally defined by at least this fold decline in RPR titer.
What is a fourfold decline in titer, [Ex: 1:32 to 1:8?]
These 2 medication classes are now considered foundational therapies in the management of HFpEF.
What are SGLT2 inhibitors and nonsteroidal MRAs (finerenone)?
This scoring system provides early risk stratification within the first 24 hours of admission by predicting mortality, disease severity, and organ failure in patients with acute pancreatitis.
What is the BISAP score?
This antibiotic is associated with thrombocytopenia, lactic acidosis, and serotonin syndrome, particularly when combined with serotonergic medications.
What is linezolid?
In an average adult, transfusion of one unit of platelets is expected to increase the platelet count by approximately this amount.
What is 30,000–50,000/µL?
This medication (OTC) provides rapid relief of dysuria from a UTI and famously turns the urine bright orange-red.
What is phenazopyridine (Pyridium)?
After an acute MI, primary-prevention ICD placement is generally delayed for at least this duration before implantation is considered.
What is 40 days?
This scoring system estimates 30-day mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
What is the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) score?
This is the recommended spironolactone to furosemide dose ratio used in cirrhotic ascites
What is 5:2 (100:40 mg)?
Short-bowel syndrome can cause this unusual form of lactic acidosis, often presenting with confusion and an elevated anion gap.
What is D-lactic acidosis?
These 2 electrolyte abnormalities are classically associated with Legionella pneumonia and can provide an important diagnostic clue.
What are hyponatremia and hypophosphatemia?
This medication lowers heart rate by inhibiting the funny current in the SA node and is used in selected patients with symptomatic HFrEF who remain in sinus rhythm with a resting heart rate of at least 70 bpm despite maximally tolerated beta-blocker therapy.
What is ivabradine?
This score is used to determine whether a patient with upper GI bleeding may be safely managed as an outpatient.
What is the Glasgow-Blatchford score?
This asthma medication carries a black box warning for serious neuropsychiatric events, including suicidal thoughts or behavior.
What is montelukast (Singulair)?
Severe deficiency of this vitamin can cause proximal muscle weakness and, rarely, rhabdomyolysis.
What is vitamin D?
In a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis, an effluent WBC count above this cutoff raises the alarm for PD-associated peritonitis.
What is >100 cells/µL?
Approved in 2026 as the first aldosterone synthase inhibitor for adults with inadequately controlled hypertension, this medication is used as add-on therapy in uncontrolled or resistant hypertension.
What is baxdrostat (Baxfendy)?
This score is calculated after several days of corticosteroid therapy in severe alcoholic hepatitis to assess treatment response.
What is the Lille score?
This monoclonal antibody binds Clostridioides difficile toxin B and is used as an adjunct to antibiotics to reduce the risk of recurrent C. difficile infection in high-risk patients.
What is bezlotoxumab?
This late-onset autoinflammatory syndrome, caused by an acquired UBA1 mutation, typically affects older men and presents with recurrent inflammation, chondritis or skin disease, macrocytic anemia, and characteristic vacuoles in bone marrow myeloid precursors.
What is VEXAS syndrome?