Pharmacology
This intramuscular injection is given to newborn's to prevent hemorrhage due to a lack of clotting factors.
What is Vitamin K?
The most commonly abnormal electrolyte, with a normal range of 3.5-5.1 mEq/L.
What is potassium?
When testing correct nasogastric tube placement using pH strips, the contents should have a pH of this or less.
What is 4?
The SDOH with the biggest impact on an individual's health.
What is income and social status?
An increased heart rate.
What is tachycardia?
This liver condition is characterized by extensive scarring from chronic inflammation and necrosis.
What is cirrhosis?
Increased levels of this lipoprotein increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, and is known as the "bad" cholesterol.
What is low-density lipoprotein (LDL)?
Hepatitis.
Torsades de Pointes is the name for a polymorphic form of this ventricular dysrhythmia.
What is ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach)?
These three common symptoms present themselves during a "classic" hyperglycemic episode.
This describes a collection of air in the chest.
This TBI is characterized by an accumulation of blood between the dura and arachnoid layers of the meninges.
What is a subdural hematoma?
This provincial bill, passed in October 2023, requires parental consent for students under 16 to use preferred pronouns or names at school.
What is Bill 137, the "Parents' Bill of Rights"?
The medical term for a nosebleed.
What is epistaxis?
This type of shock, caused by damage to the spinal cord, is characterized by hypotension, bradycardia, and hypothermia as the three main symptoms.
What is neurogenic shock?
Beriberi is the name given to a deficiency of this vitamin.
What is thiamin?
In Saskatchewan, HIV is primarily transmitted this way.
What is IV drug use?
Agnosia.