Pharmacy
While known in the US as Acetaminophen (Tylenol), this drug is referred to as ______ in most parts of the world.
What is Paracetamol?
This condition is defined as a lateral curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?
The UN agency that supports children in developing nations with nutrition, education, and protection.
What is UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)?
In many hospitals, "Code Blue" is the universal announcement for this life-threatening emergency.
What is a cardiac arrest (or respiratory arrest)?
This extremely hard substance in the human body covers the outside of your teeth.
What is Enamel?
Global organization that publishes the Essential Medicines List to improve drug access worldwide
what is World Health Organization?
This "sleeping disease," transmitted by the tsetse fly, is endemic in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
What is African Trypanosomiasis (or Sleeping Sickness)?
This set of warnings must be given to a suspect in the US to inform them of their right to remain silent.
What are Miranda Rights?
The first known nursing school was established in 250 B.C.E. in this country.
What is India?
"Regarded as the 'Gold Standard' in dentistry, this prescription-only antiseptic rinse is commonly used after gum surgery to kill bacteria and reduce swelling".
What is Peridex (or Chlorhexidine)?
what were the first pharmacy shops called?
what is apothecary/apothecaries?
In 1955, the first effective vaccine for this paralytic disease was announced by Jonas Salk, with an oral version developed later by Albert Sabin.
What is Polio?
The international body that sets standards for social work education globally is known as the IASSW (International Association of Schools of Social Work) which is located in?
What is University of Pretoria, South Africa?
This electrolyte abnormality can cause peaked T waves, widened QRS, and life-threatening arrhythmias, often seen in renal failure.
What is hyperkalemia?
According to global health studies, this chronic bacterial disease is the primary cause of tooth loss in adults worldwide.
What is periodontitis?
Similar to the Dragon-type Pokémon, Vibrava, this Pfizer-owned antibiotic is a commonly prescribed tetracycline used to treat infections?
What is Vibramycin/Doxycycline?
The two most common causes of subarachnoid hemorrhagic stroke.
What are head trauma and aneurysm?
In 1803, this case established the principle of "judicial review," allowing the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This international health initiative, supported by the WHO, aimed to increase the voice, influence, and global presence of nurses to achieve universal health coverage.
What is the Nursing Now Campaign?
This type of malocclusion occurs when the lower molars are positioned posteriorly relative to the upper molars, often resulting in an overbite.
What is Class II malocclusion (retrognathic bite)?
This NMDA receptor antagonist anesthetic causes dissociative anesthesia and emergence reactions, sometimes used in refractory depression.
What is Ketamine?
This type of cancer is associated with "Birbeck granules" on electron microscopy.
What is Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis?
This principle of the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishes that the court may only exercise jurisdiction when national legal systems are unwilling or unable to do so.
What is the Principle of Complementarity?
According to current trends, these two ventricular rhythms, often seen on cardiac monitors in critical care, are considered non-perfusing and immediately fatal if not managed.
What are Ventricular Fibrillation (V-fib) and Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia (Pulseless V-tach)?
Affecting only 320 known people in the world, this rare genetic condition causes chronic gingivitis and aphthous ulcers that requires specialized, global collaborative care for oral and systemic health.
What is Barth Syndrome?