"My Ear Hurts"
Your Sugar is Low
Killing Your Super Bugs
Albert (Anthony) Olsen
Metabolize This
100
This membrane becomes inflamed and possibly immobile during acute otitis media infections.
What is the tympanic membrane?
100
This compound is an alternative energy source for the brain.
What is a ketone?
100
This antibiotic was used to treat Albert (Anthony).
What is Ceftriaxone?
100
This is the reason Albert was unresponsive to stimuli prior to infusion of dextrose.
What is low blood sugar/metabolic coma?
100
Fatty acid oxidation occurs at this carbon.
What is the Beta carbon?
200
Disfunction of these tubes with mucus is a general symptom of all otitis media infections.
What is the Eustachian tube?
200
This reflux, that normally shows a dorsal flexion in young children, is absent during a hypoglycemic coma.
What is the Babinski reflux?
200
This potential side effect of Ceftriaxone would impact the anion gap.
What is diarrhea?
200
This enzyme is not active in people with von Gierke disease (GSD I).
What is G6Pase?
200
This is 1.how and 2.where NADH produces ATP
What is the electron transport chain in the inner mitochondrial membrane?
300
This antibiotic is generally the first line of defense against acute otitis media infections.
What is amoxicillin?
300
Infants (over 3 days old) would be considered hypoglycemic if their blood glucose is below this number.
What is 40?
300
This is inhibited during the use of Ceftriaxone.
What is cell wall synthesis?
300
Albert's high triglycerides (330) were the result of this energy intermediate.
What is NADPH?
300
A high uric acid would be a result of this pathway.
What is nucleic acid catabolism?
400
This instrument is used to diagnosis and assess inner ear pain.
What is an otoscope?
400
These three cranial nerves are examined by PERRLA testing in Albert’s (Anthony’s) case.
What are cranial nerves III (oculomotor), IV (trochlear), and VI (abducens)?
400
This is 12-16 hours in adults with renal impairment.
What is the half life of Ceftriaxone?
400
Detergent lysed this allowing Albert's enzymatic activity to return in vitro.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
400
These two enzymes are the gluconeogenic step required to obtain PEP from pyruvate.
What is Pyruvate Carboxylase (to OAA) and PEP Carboxykinase (to pyruvate)?
500
This type of bacteria is the most common cause of acute otitis media.
What is Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, or Staphylococcus aureus.
500
This was the highest blood glucose ever recorded (within 300).
What is 2,656 mg/dl?
500
An increase in this cell type may be found with Ceftriaxone use.
What is an Eosinophil?
500
This is the reason why Alberts HDL was low.
What is ...??????????????????????????????? I don't know if you find out you get the points.
500
A deficiency in this enzyme would cause a downstream effect of increased oxidative species harmful to red blood cells.
What is G6PDH?