Cardio Conundrums
Diagnosis for 3 or more consecutive ventricular beats at a rate >100/min with a duration <30 seconds
What is non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
Class of type 2 diabetes medication associated with euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis
What are Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors
Common stool color associated with bismuth subsalicylate treatment
What is black
Initial intervention for transfusion-related acute lung injury
What is Stop the transfusion
Protein most sensitive to detection by urine dipstick testing
What is Albumin
Term for immunity resulting from minimizing the number of individuals in a population susceptible to an infection
What is Herd immunity
(accept herd effect; community immunity; community effect)
Painless microabscesses on the palms and soles in infective endocarditis
What are Janeway lesions
Cause of chronic hypovolemic hyponatremia and hyperkalemia with hyperpigmentation
What is Primary adrenal insufficiency (accept Addison disease)
Valvular disorder associated with gastrointestinal angiodysplasia
Term for optimization of environmental and behavioral factors associated with sleep
What is Sleep hygiene
Acid-base disorder associated with opioid overdose
What is Primary respiratory acidosis
Aspergillus-specific serum immunoassay potentially useful in diagnosing invasive infection
What is Galactomannan assay
Most common finding in clinically-evident cardiac sarcoidosis
What is Complete heart block (accept heart block)
Most common cause of endogenous Cushing syndrome
ACTH-secreting pituitary tumor (accept Cushing disease)
Condition characterized by ascitic fluid infection without an evident intra-abdominal surgically treatable source
What is Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
Substance implicated in vaping-related lung injury
What is Vitamin E acetate (accept vitamin E)
Types of renal tubular acidosis associated with hypokalemia
Type 1 (distal) and type 2 (proximal)
Viral infection associated with the development of B cell lymphomas, T cell lymphomas, and nasopharyngeal carcinomas
Epstein-Barr virus
In pericardial tamponade, the 3 components of Becks triad are:
What are Jugular venous distension (accept JVD), diminished (accept muffled) heart sounds, and hypotension
Hypercalcemic disorder due to parathyroid hyperplasia following prolonged parathyroid stimulation
What is Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
Medication that delays progression and improves survival in primary biliary cholangitis
What is Ursodeoxycholic Acid
COPD patients with this sea-level oxygen saturation threshold are candidates for in-flight supplemental oxygen
What is Oxygen saturation less than 92% (accept 92%)
Serum sodium and urine specific gravity findings associated with beer potomania
What are Hyponatremia and low specific gravity
Organism responsible for the most common infectious cause of blindness worldwide
Chlamydia trachomatis
Minimum recommended duration of anticoagulation before elective cardioversion in new-onset atrial fibrillation of longer than 48 hours' duration
What is three weeks
Eponym for syndrome resulting from hemorrhagic adrenal gland failure associated with severe bacterial infection
What is Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
Hepatitis virus associated with circulating Dane particle
Hepatitis B (accept HBV)
Eponym for combination of hypertension, respiratory depression, and bradycardia associated with intracranial hypertension
What is Cushing triad
(also accept Cushing reflex, reaction, effect, phenomenon, law, or response)
B vitamin deficiency resulting from increased excretion during aggressive diuresis
What is Thiamine (accept vitamin B1)
Recommended initial antimicrobial therapy for cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV infection
What is Amphotericin B plus flucytosine