Toxicology
Cardiology
Medical obscurities and fun facts
Pulmonary/CCM
Infectious disease
Surprise me!
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This medication acts on the GABA receptor to reverse benzodiazepine overdose
What is Flumazenil?
200
Most common primary cardiac neoplasm
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The most common cardiac tumor in children
What is a Myxoma?
(Rhabdomyoma)
200
This commonly used drug is named after the greek god of dreams and sleep
And for an extra $100!! what is the name of the greek god
Morphine
(Morpheus)
200
Medical procedure in which the pleural space is obliterated
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This common antibiotic is often utilized in this procedure
Pleurodesis
(Tetracycline/doxycycline; can also accept erythromycin)
200
Isolation precautions for disseminated varicella-zoster infection
What are airborne and contact precautions?
200
Most common metal causing Type IV hypersensitivity reaction
What is nickel?
400
This commonly ingested chemical can be used to reverse toxicity from methanol poisoning
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This is the toxic byproduct of methanol metabolism
What is Ethanol?
(Formaldehyde/Formic acid/Formate)
400
Most common endocrine cause of reversible heart failure
What is hyperthyroidism?
400
The origin of the "takotsubo" in Takosubo cardiomyopathy
400
Medical term for 'caved in' or 'sunken' chest
Pectus excavatum
400
Most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the US
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It is most commonly transmitted by this species of arachnid
What is Lyme disease?
(Ixodes)
400
Most common gastrointestinal infection associated with IgA deficiency
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This is the most commonly used antibiotic to treat it
What is Giardasis?
(Metronidazole)
600
This compound, AKA folinic acid, can be used to minimize methotrexate toxicity
What is Leucovorin?
600
The most common finding in clinically-evident cardiac sarcoidosis
What is heart block?
600
Ancient Egyptians and mesopotamians used this animal byproduct as a form of contraception
What is crocodile dung?
600
Therapy with best survival benefit in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
What is Lung transplantation?
600
Two most common lethal complications of direct measles infection
Pneumonia and encephalitis
600
This physical exam maneuver is used to examine the integrity of the Achilles tendon
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Describe how it is performed
What is the Thompson test?
(Lack of plantar flexion when squeezing the calf is a positive test)
800
This "colorful" iron salt is used as an antidote for heavy metal poisoning, in addition to its use as a histochemical stain
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The histochemical stain is used to aid in the diagnose of this autosomal recessive disease
What is Prussian blue?
(Hereditary hemochromatosis)
800
Statin use is associated with decreased risk of this arrhythmia
What is atrial fibrillation?
800
Prior to the invention of penicillin, this was a "hot" technique for treatment of neurosyphillis
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The supposed mechanism by which this technique worked
What is Malarial infection?
(High fevers to eradicate the spirochetes)
800
Hyperthermia and myoclonus syndrome caused by the drug 'Ecstasy'
What is Serotonin syndrome?
800
Lemierre's syndrome is characterized by thrombophlebitis of this vessel
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When associated with an infectious cause it is most commonly caused by this bacteria
What is internal jugular vein thrombophlebitis?
(Fusobacterium necrophorum)
800
This lesion predisposes to vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
What is vulvar lichen sclerosis? (accept lichen sclerosis; cervical intraepitheial neoplasia)
1000
This medication combination is used as an antidote to Sarin gas poisoning
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This is the mechanism of action of Sarin gas
What is atropine and pralidoxime chloride?
(Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor)
1000
Wolff-Parkinson-White accessory pathway
What is bundle of Kent?
1000
Dr. Barry Marshall proved the causal link between H. pylori and gastritis by doing this
What is drinking a petri dish full of H. pylori to give himself gastritis?
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Pulmonary fungal infection that may result in a black pleural effusion
What is Aspergillus (also accept Rhizopus)?
1000
Recommended initial antimicrobial therapy for cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV infection
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This procedural intervention is associated with a relative improvement in survivial
What is Amphotericin B plus flucytosine ?
(Therapeutic lumbar punctures/lumbar drain placement)
1000
Most common benign mass at the vaginal introitus
What is Bartholin cyst?
1200
The antivenin CroFab is named after this family of snakes, whose envenomation it treats (Will accept latin name or conventional name)
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The "Fab" part of of the name stands for this mechanism of action
What is Crotalidae/Crotaline snakes/pit vipers?
(Fragment Antigen Binding)
1200
Heart disease associated with long-term tocolysis with terbutaline
What is Peripartum cardiomyopathy?
1200
Werner Forssman, the inventor of cardiac catheterization, performed the first cardiac cath on this person
Who is himself?
1200
Diagnosis for pleural fluid containing elongated macrophages and distinctive multinucleated giant cells (tadpole cells)
What is Rheumatoid pleurisy?
1200
Therapy utilizing bacteria-specific viruses to treat bacterial infection
What is Phage therapy (accept bacteriophage therapy) ?
1200
Headache type that may be treated with microvascular decompression
What is Trigeminal Neuralgia?