Animals and Medicine
Dead and White
PA Catheters are Good
Semi-Obscure Antibiotics
Doctor, Help, I Can't Stop Farting
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The second and third letters in this acronym refer to the animal whose venom is used to detect lupus anticoagulant.

DRVVT - RV stands for Russell Viper

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This guy was good enough to have a triad and a major abdominal operation named after him.  I always wanted my own triad. 


Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple

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This parameter, crucial to shock etiology determination and inotrope/vasopressor titration, is still a calculated value.

SVR

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No bull here.  This antibiotic is primarily reserved for pimples, and has more side effects than its more commonly prescribed cousin.  It even comes in foam form.

Minocycline

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To within 200 mL, this is how much a typical adult farts in a day.




1000 mL (500-1500mL)

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One of the oldest medical therapies, these annelids can help improve blood flow at the edges of a skin flap.

Leeches

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Though more commonly associated with a hallitosis inducing mucosal/submucosal outpouching, this guy also got his name attached to fibular nerve palsy too, somehow.

Zenker

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Withdrawing the PA catheter with the balloon still inflated can cause this universally lethal complication.  

Pulmonary artery rupture

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Ok so it's not an antibiotic, but this cereblon E3 ligase modulator can be used for Mycobacterium leprae or lepromatosis.  Due to its history it is rarely dusted off.  

Thalidomide

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This element with the atomic number 16 is typically why farts smell bad.

Sulphur

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Injectable GLP-1 receptor agonists are a synthetic version of the peptide found in this North American venomous lizard's saliva.  

Gila Monster

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I could only find a few 4-named conditions out there. Mayer–Rokitansky–Küster–Hauser syndrome (MRKH syndrome) apparently refers to this other epononymous agenesis - where the uterus doesn't form.  That makes this a 5 eponymn clue.  

Mullerian agenesis

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To within 10 cm, this is the average depth that I have found is the sweet spot for PA catheters inserted via the left subclavian vein.  

60 cm

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I always get this new(er) drug confused with ceftolozane/tazobactam AKA Zerbaxa.  But this MDR gram resistant cefalosporin/beta-lactamase inhibitor isn't as great against pseudomonas.  I used it bunch in fellowship against MDR Acenitobacter.

Ceftazidime/avibactam - Avycaz

600

To within 2, this is the average number of times that a person farts in a day.

15 (10-20 times a day)

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Despite decades of oversimplification in medical school, pancreatitis in adults who have been stung (NOT BITTEN) by a scorpion has only been tied to a species found on this island.  

Trinidad

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A big name at Mass Gen for decades and still having a prestigious research prize named after him, he gets his name on angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia.  

Castleman

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The picture below shows the transition from RV to PA waveform, signified by the event shown by the arrow and reflected in the PA pressures.

Diastolic "step-up"

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This combo of drugs with their first halves sounding like the latin for 5 and an aquatic mammal, and the same clean-sounding last seven letters are pretty good against MRSA and VRE.  Never seen it used.  

Quinpristin/dalfopristin

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This acronym refers to foods that can cause you to fart too much - advise your excessively flatulent patient to avoid them.  

FODMAPs Fermentable, Oligosaccharides, Dissacharides, Monosaccarides And Polyols

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One the most widely used anticoagulant reversal agents used to be derived from the sperm of this animal; synthetic formulation is more common now.

Salmon (protamine)

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Ok, so this guy is one of my biggest heroes ever.  A WWI combat surgeon and relentless and tireless reseacher, the legend goes that he and Drs. Best, and Collip went down the ward of dying diabetic children injecting them with insulin.  By the time they got to the end, the first patients were waking up.  He patented insulin for $1 to try and make it available to everyone.  

Frederick Banting

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If you see this waveform pattern on your wedged catheter, your patient likely has this cardiac pathology.


Severe mitral regurg

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This drug has been on almost every jeopardy I've done.  Discovered in 1949, and related to an OTC antibiotic, it is a drug of last resort for the most resistant Gram negative entities.  It's gonna kill some kidneys and frighten the hell out the ID nerds.  

Colistin (polymixin E)

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This doctor retired in 2023 after a long and illustrious career during which time he invented the GoLytely bowel prep and earned a title that I greatly desire - "The King of Farts". 

Dr. Michael Levitt

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