Duration of antibiotics for uncomplicated community acquired pneumonia. Give range of days.
5 to 7 days
Heberden and Bouchard nodes are associated with this rheumatic disease
Osteoarthritis
Name 2 screening recommendations (exams) for chronic complications of diabetes
Treatment for acetaminophen overdose
N-acetylcysteine
Erythrocyte casts indicate this type of disease
Glomerular
Sepsis, cellulitis, hemorrhagic bullae after exposure to saltwater fish/shellfish in patient with cirrhosis
Vibro vulnificus
These two pulmonary tests should be ordered at the time of initial diagnosis of systemic sclerosis
PFT and high-resolution CT
A random plasma glucose of this level with hyperglycemic symptoms is diagnostic of diabetes and does not warrant repeat measurement.
≥200 mg/dL
Treatment for salicylates overdose
Forced diuresis, bicarbonate infusion, glucose
Broad casts are associated with
CKD
Treatment for bacterial meningitis in patients >50 years or those with altered cell-mediated immunity
IV ampicillin (Listeria coverage) + IV ceftriaxone/cefotaxime + IV vancomycin
What gout medication should be prescribed for patients who cannot tolerate allopurinol and in patients with CKD
Febuxostat
This will be falsely low in patients with hemolytic anemia, patients taking erythropoietin, or patients with kidney injury
Hemoglobin A1c
Treatment for tricyclic antidepressant overdose
Bicarbonate infusion titrated to QRS duration
Test for diagnosing positional (orthostatic) proteinuria, a benign cause of isolated proteinuria
Split daytime (standing) and nighttime (supine) urine collections.
Sternoclavicular joint osteomyelitis is associated with
Injection drug use
Diagnostic tests for inflammatory myositis include these three exams (labs and studies)
Measurement of serum CK and aldolase levels and EMG
The USPSTF recommends screening for abnormal blood glucose as part of cardiovascular risk assessment in adults aged ? to ? years who have overweight or obesity.
35 to 70 years
Treatment for sulfonylurea overdose
IV glucose + octreotide, glucagon IM = temporizing
Hematuria with preserved erythrocyte morphology in the urine and without proteinuria or casts is consistent with this type of bleeding
Extraglomerular bleeding (GU cancer, kidney stones, trauma, infection, and medications) and requires additional diagnostic studies to locate the extraglomerular source
CH50 assay
Patients with Sjögren syndrome are at increased risk for *this* compared with the general population
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (large B-cell and MALT lymphomas being the most common)
Reducing the insulin infusion before complete clearing of this will cause a relapse of DKA.
ketones
Treatment for B blocker and CCB overdose
Atropine 1 mg IV up to 3 doses, glucagon, calcium chloride, vasopressors, cardiac pacemaker (if indicated), high-dose insulin and glucose, IV lipid emulsion
Casts are cylindrical aggregates of these type of proteins that trap the intraluminal contents and appear in the urine
Tamm-Horsfall mucoproteins