Clinical Presentation
Having no symptoms or disease. Another word for symptom-free
What is Asymptomatic?
Ouchie, boo-boo, wound
What is injury?
Medical imaging using ultrasonic frequency.
What is an ultrasound?
Common anticoagulant from bovine or porcine, larger polysaccharide fragments.
What is unfractionated heparin?
Soda/pop made by a pharmacist.
What is Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper or Vernors?
A temperature of 100.4 or greater.
What is a fever?
What these words have in common: pancreatitis, cholecystitis, appendicitis.
What is inflammation?
Medical imaging test that uses x-rays to create 3D images of the inside of the body
What is a CT scan?
Unfractionated heparins "more sophisticated" sibling.
What is low molecular weight heparin?
Famous mystery write who worked as a pharmacy technician during World War I
Who is Agatha Christie?
Goosebumps or shivers.
What are chills?
Tendency to clot more easily (medical term)
What is hypercoagulability?
Laboratory values to assess liver function.
What is platelet count, bilirubin, INR and albumin?
Anticoagulant that interacts with everything and calls for close monitoring.
What is a vitamin K antagonist (Warfarin)?
As of 2021, most prescribed medication in the United States.
What is Amoxicillin?
Abdominal discomfort or bloating/gas.
What is dyspepsia?
Catheter-based procedure that creates a tunnel through the liver to connect portal vein to a hepatic vein, allowing relief of pressure on the liver's circulatory system.
What is a TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt) procedure?
Half year, 6 moons.
What is 6 months?
Year the first hospital pharmacy in America was opened.
When was 1752?
Abdomen swelling outward, measurable increase in abdominal girth.
What is abdominal distension?
Reusing a body part to improve outcomes in a new patient.
What is a liver transplant?
Forever, eternity
What is indefinitely?
Town where Dr. Pepper was invented, town is also known for a siege conducted by the American government investigating a religious group led by David Koresh.
What is Waco, TX?