Diseases
Which HHV is known to cause few symptoms in adults, but when congenital can cause severe birth defects such as blindness or deafness?
Cytomegalovirus (HHV-5)
Commonly used to treat pruritus, and is often administered before administering blood products or chemotherapy to prevent allergic reactions. Also used for motion sickness.
What is Diphenhydramine?
leuk/o-
White
What does the acronym RICE mean?
rest, ice, compression, elevation
ETOH
Alcohol. Etoh Intake History Is Often Recorded As Part Of A Patient History
What virus is spread by mosquitoes and commonly causes birth defects such as blindness, lissencephaly, and microcephaly?
Zika Virus
What is the most commonly prescribed medication for type 2 diabetes?
Metformin
-sclerosis
Abnormal Hardening
What are the 3 germ layers from superficial to deep?
Ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm
Dx
Diagnosis
What mosquito-transmittable virus is characterized by jaundice, kidney/liver failure, and hemorrhagic fever? Preventable with vaccination but there is no cure.
Yellow Fever
What is the common name for the drug digitalis? What kind of drug is it considered?
Digoxin, it is a cardiac glycoside
myc/o-
Fungus
What are the 3 major salivary glands?
parotid, submandibular, sublingual
Fx
Fracture
What disorder has key symptoms of chronic fatigue, digestive issues, and widespread pain, and is also more common in women and people >40 years old?
Fibromyalgia
What is the medical term for the medication sold under the brand name Xanax?
Alprazolam
-stenosis
Abnormal Narrowing
What is a general term for the substance that plays a major role in many allergic reactions, dilating blood vessels, and making vessels abnormally permeable?
Histamine
gtt
drop
A hereditary condition that encompasses a group of inherited disorders affecting the peripheral nervous system, causing weakness in the lower extremities before affecting upper extremities. Key characteristics include hammer toes and high arches.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
What is the normal range for international normalized ratio?
0.8-1.2
-pnea
Breathing
A systemic, deliberative and interactive process by which nurses use critical thinking to collect, validate, analyze and synthesize the collected information in order to make judgment about health status
Assesment
H&H
Hemoglobin And Hematocrit