Right of patients to make decisions about their medical care
Patient autonomy (accept autonomy)
Scientist integral to germ theory through the discovery of the pathology of puerperal fever
Louis Pasteur (accept Pasteur)
FEV1 value that defines GOLD 4 or very severe COPD
<30% of predicted (accept <30%)
Yellow protein and lipid deposits in macular degeneration
Drusen
Collection of squamous epithelium and infected debris in the middle ear
Cholesteatoma
Federal law that standardized the protection of health information disclosure
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
French physician who invented the stethoscope
René Laënnec (accept Laënnec)
Spirometry ratio used to indicate an obstructive defect
FEV1/FVC (accept forced expiratory volume in one second/forced vital capacity)
Systemic disease most commonly associated with arteriovenous nicking
Hypertension (accept high blood pressure)
Nerve carrying general and taste sensation from posterior 1/3 of the tongue
Glossopharyngeal nerve (accept cranial nerve IX or ninth cranial nerve)
Ethical principles requiring all people be treated fairly and that health resources be distributed equitably
Justice
Substance widely accepted to have been first synthesized in 1897 by chemist Felix Hoffmann
Aspirin (accept acetylsalicylic acid or ASA)
Chronic lung disease of the major airways associated with cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis
Leading cause of visual impairment that can be treated surgically
Cataracts
Condition that presents with the ENT features shown [ image ]
Relapsing polychondritis
Federal law mandating hospitals provide a medical screening exam to patients regardless of ability to pay
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
Strain responsible for the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918
H1N1 (accept H1N1 influenza A, but do NOT accept influenza A)
Pulmonary cause for cryptogenic stroke
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (accept PAVM, pulmonary shunt, or pulmonary arteriovenous fistula)
Eye drop that causes blood vessel blanching in episcleritis used to differentiate it from scleritis
Phenylephrine (accept Neo-Synephrine)
Most common causative organism for infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein
Fusobacterium necrophorum (accept Fusobacterium)
Ethical principle of truth-telling
Veracity (accept honesty and truthfulness)
Arsenic-based agent known as the first modern antimicrobial used to treat syphilis and African trypanosomiasis
Arsphenamine (also accept Salvarsan or compound 606)
Duration of treatment for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
6 to 12 months (accept any time within this range)
Vitamin deficiency associated with Bitot's spots
Vitamin A (A, niacin, or vitamin B3 also acceptable)
Cranial nerve most commonly injured during parotid surgery
Seventh (accept facial)