Endocrine
What is Myxedema Coma
FOOSH with snuffbox tenderness
What is a scaphoid fracture?
War in Gaza paused so that this vaccine could be administered to the local population.
What is the polio vaccine?
Timeframe for the onset of AMS
What is 0-2 days after arriving at altitude?
The solid organ most frequently injured with blunt trauma?
What is the Spleen?
Deficiency of insulin leading to hypreglycemia, ketonemia and acidosis
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis?
The nerve most commonly injuryed in humeral shaft fractures.
What is the radial nerve?
Biden administration worked to lower the cost of this diabetic medication
What is insulin?
Timeframe for the development of HAPE
What is 3-4 days after arrival to altitude?
The material used to close lacerations with the greatest resistance to infection.
What are staples?
MUDPILE CAT
What is an acronym for some causes of increased anion gap?
A fracture of the proximal fibula is commonly associated with this.
What is a medial ankle fx/sprain?
This non-biological substance was recently found in human brains and has been known to exist in nearly every organ in the body including the bloodstream and in plaques that clog arteries.
What are Microplastics?
Typical elevations below which AMS, HAPE and HACE do not occur.
What is 6K ft, 8K ft and 9K feet?
The most common cause of painless lower GI Bleed in infants or children.
What is Meckel's Diverticulum?
Global confusion, ataxia and ophthalmopelgia in the setting of chronic alcohol abuse
What is Wernicke's encepholapathy?
The tarsal bone most commonly fractured.
What is the calcaneus?
The substance that has been found to make mouse skin temporarily transluecent.
What is Yellow Dye, #5?
4 Medications used in the treatment of HAPE
What are steroids, nifedipine, acetazolimide and supplemental oxygen?
Recent CDC-endorsed prophylaxis for MSM/transgender women after exposure to STI.
What is Doxy-PEP?
The principle signs of Adrenal Crisis
What are abdominal pain, hypotension, shock, combined hyponatremia/hyperkalemia?
What is septic arthritis?
The mechanism by which the Ocean Gate Titan Submersible crew died.
Physiologic mechanisms for adaptation to high altitude.
What do hyperventilation, tachycardia, renal bicarbonate excretion and hemoconcentration represent together?
Three organisms which produce toxin mediated neurologic pathology.
What is C. Botulinum, C. tetani, C. Diphteria, Ticks, Black Widows, Coral Snakes...?