This suffix has a Greek origin meaning flow or discharge
What is -rrhea?
In 2021, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) recommended removing race from this calculation
What is eGFR?
In Little Women, Beth died of this illness
What is Scarlet Fever?
Increased intracranial pressure can lead a triad of irregular decreased respirations, bradycardia, and systolic hypertension with widened pulse pressure named after this physician
Who is Cushing?
Using color flow doppler, the presence of this finding on bladder ultrasound rules out ureteral obstruction.
What are ureteral jets?
This is either a scotch-based cocktail or the preferred way to treat syphilis (doses and frequency may vary)
What is Penicillin?
This agency within the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives
What is the Indian Health Service?
In Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan was progressively ill from this illness
What is Tuberculosis?
This is the eponym for bilateral small pupils that accommodate, but do not constrict when exposed to bright light in neurosyphilis
What are Argyll Robertson pupils?
In 2021, the ACP released a clinical guideline for the use of POCUS in patients with this chief complaint
What is dyspnea?
Under the executive order halting communications from federal agencies, In January the CDC failed to publish this weekly report for the first time in decades.
What is the MMWR (The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)?
This medical school is the owner of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU), a peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary health and health care issues of medically underserved communities.
What is Meharry Medical College?
“Hello New World, all the boys and girls, I’ve got some true stories to tell, you’re back outside, but they still lied” is the introduction to this Kendrick Lamar song, named after a piece of PPE
What is N95?
“The canalith repositioning procedure: for treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo” was published in 1992, which describes this treatment.
What is the Epley maneuver?
This shown lung ultrasound sign occurs at the margins of consolidated lung that borders aerated lung and can help distinguish infectious consolidation from atelectasis.
What is Shred Sign?
This physician discovered hand-washing as an important part of greatly reducing death puerperal fever in women in maternity wards in 19th century Vienna, as well as reducing other hospital acquired and communicable diseases
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
According to a study by the organization Physicians for Human Rights, this type of evaluation done by physicians significantly improves success rates of asylum being granted from 50% to greater than 89%
What is a forensic medical evaluation?
This is the fictional hospital setting that plays home to the new medical drama, “The Pitt”
What is Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital
This Nobel Prize winner for the physiology of digestion is more known for his work on classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This window was added to the standard FAST exam to form the eFAST (extended) exam for detection of this clinical entity. (2 part answer)
What is anterior lung/pleural window and pneumothorax?
The “panda” and “lambda” signs found in gallium-67 scintigraphy are specific to this illness
What is Sarcoidosis?
This organization established the People’s Free Medical Clinics which inspired the creation of the Neighborhood Health Centers during Lyndon B Johnson’s administration, eventually renamed to Federally-Qualified Health Centers
What is the Black Panther Party?
This tree on the Peruvian coat of arms, shown here, was an early treatment/prophylaxis for Malaria
What is Cinchona?
This disease is named with a fictional eponym after a Dickens’ character, although it is now more commonly known as Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
What is Pickwickian Syndrome?
Within a lung consolidation, the presence of these are very useful for ruling IN (specificity 94%, PPV 97%) pneumonia over atelectasis.
What are dynamic air bronchograms?