TRAUMA
Q: This is the first step in the ATLS primary survey?
A: What is airway with cervical spine protection?
Q: The most common cause of small bowel obstruction in a patient with history of abdominal surgery
A: What are postoperative adhesions?
Q: The most common histologic type of breast cancer.
A: What is invasive ductal carcinoma?
Q: The most common cause of primary hyperparathyroidism.
A: what is parathyroid adenoma?
Q: the pressure gradient between upper and lower limbs.
A: what is Ankle Brachial Index (ABI)
Q: The most common cause of postoperative fever in the first 24 hours.
A: What is atelectasis?
Q: A patient with GCS ≤8 requires this intervention.
A: What is endotracheal intubation?
Q: A clinical score commonly used to aid diagnosing acute appendicitis
A: what is ”Alvarado score”
Q: The initial imaging modality for a palpable breast mass in a woman <30 years.
A: What is breast ultrasound?
Q: This lab finding is characteristic of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
A: What is elevated calcitonin?
Q: ABI < 0.3
A: what is critical limb ischemia?
Q: This formula is used to estimate fluid resuscitation in burn patients.
A: What is Parkland’s formula?
Q: FAST stands for this in trauma assessment
A: What is Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma?
Q: The gold standard diagnostic test for cholelithiasis
A: what is ultrasound
Q: The lymph node group first involved in breast cancer spread.
A: what are sentinel lymph nodes?
Q: Conn’s syndrome is caused by this adrenal pathology.
A: What is aldosterone-producing adenoma?
Q: The most common site of peripheral arterial disease.
A: What is the superficial femoral artery?
Q: The most common organism causing surgical site infections.
A: What is Staphylococcus aureus?
Q: The classic triad of hypotension, muffled heart sounds, and JVD describes this.
A: What is cardiac tamponade (Beck’s triad)?
Q: while palpation, a cessation of inspiration due to tender right upper quadrant.
A: what is Murphy’s sign
Q: The hormonal receptor status associated with better prognosis in breast cancer
A: What is ER/PR positivity?
medullary thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, and hyperparathyroidism
A: What is MEN2A syndrome?
Q: This imaging modality is the gold standard for diagnosing mesenteric ischemia.
A: What is CT angiography?
Q: This electrolyte abnormality is a hallmark of tumor lysis syndrome.
A: What is hyperkalemia?
Q: The most common site of diaphragmatic rupture after blunt trauma.
A: What is the left hemidiaphragm?
Q:
.Flushing
.Diarrhea
.Bronchospasm
.Right-sided heart failure
A: What is carcinoid syndrome
Q: Paget’s disease of the breast is associated with this underlying condition.
A: What is ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive carcinoma?
Q: The most common cause of Cushing’s syndrome
A: What is exogenous corticosteroid use?
Q: the most common cause of mesenteric thromboemboli?
A: What is Atrial Fibrillation?
Q: The preferred vasopressor in septic shock.
A: What is norepinephrine?