Onc emergencies!
Often due to lung cancer or lymphoma, this complication can present with facial swelling, venous distension, and dyspnea.
What is SVC syndrome?
This class of organisms can lead to rapid sepsis and death in patients with febrile neutropenia and should be covered empirically.
What are gram negative rods (especially Pseudomonas)?
Resistance to this antibiotic is a classic diagnostic sign of ESBL resistance.
What is ceftriaxone?
This score helps determine the pre-test probability of a pulmonary embolism to guide further testing.
What is the Wells score?
This vitamin is often deficient in winter months.
You should avoid repleting this electrolyte in a patient with Tumor Lysis Syndrome (unless deficiency is severe or symptomatic).
What is calcium?
This bug can cause endocarditis and is sometimes a harbinger of a gastrointestinal mucosal lesion.
What is strep bovis (or gallolyticus)?
This medication covers atypical organisms in CAP without causing QTc prolongation.
What is doxycycline?
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What is "Not Like Us"?
This disorder consists of painful attacks and discoloration in extremities, often triggered by cold exposure.
What is Raynaud phenomenon?
This medication is used to achieve long-term control of cancer-related hypercalcemia.
What is a bisphosphonate?
A common gram-positive organism implicated in both GI and GU infections.
What is enterococcus?
This class of antibiotics is your only PO stepdown option to treat Pseudomonal infections.
What is a fluoroquinolone (e.g. ciprofloxacin)?
This score helps determine which patients with alcoholic hepatitis benefit from steroids.
What is the Maddrey discriminant function?
This is the definitive medical treatment for severe carbon monoxide poisoning.
What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?
65F with metastatic breast cancer complains of progressive lower back pain and new difficulty lifting her legs. She has urinary retention. This is your first intervention.
What is IV dexamethasone?
This organism can cause rapidly progressive cellulitis after cat and dog bites.
What is pasteurella multocida?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White becomes an expert manufacturer of this class of drugs.
What are amphetamines?
In patients with osteopenia, this score helps risk-stratify which patients might be at higher risk for fracture.
What is the FRAX score?
This virus is strongly associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction.
What is influenza?
This enzyme is inhibited by allopurinol and is a key step in the formation of uric acid.
What is xanthine oxidase?
This organism is classically associated with osteomyelitis in patients with sickle cell disease.
What is Salmonella?
This antibiotic is the narrowest effective treatment for ESBL E. Coli.
What is IV ertapenem?
This score predicts the risk of decompensation in patients with PE, helping to determine who can be sent home vs who should be admitted and monitored.
What is the PESI score?
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What is 1994?