STDonts
Don't worry about the WEIRDO
Try not to Breathe
Puff and Bloat
All Mixed Up
100

Herpes virus tends to cause either genital lesions or what other lesions?

Cold sores

100

What country has the most worldwide cases of the plague yearly?

Madagascar

100

What is happening to death rates from COPD and what is the main driver of that?

Decreasing because rates of smoking are decreasing

100

What does COPD stand for and what are the 2 main types?

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema

100

What is the leading preventable cause of death in the US?

Smoking

200

Which STD is also called "The Clap?"

Gonorrhea

200

Where in the US is plague typically seen and what is the treatment?

Southwestern US (carried by fleas on prairie dogs and squirrels), Antibiotics

200

What "fancy" new treatment did we develop for ARDS during COVID that can be performed anywhere?

Flip the person on their belly--more aveoli posteriorly so hopefully gravity helps them open

200

What causes clubbing?

Chronically low oxygen levels

200

What group of people is most at risk when infected with Zika?

Pregnant Women

300

What is the most common bacterial STD in the US?

Chlamydia

300

What type of infection is Naegleria fowleri and is it contagious?

Parasite, not contagious

300

What 3 main things happen in asthma?

Hypersensitive airway, bronchospasm, increased mucus

300

Approximately ---% of people who smoke will develop COPD?

20%

300

Approximately what percentage of people infected with polio virus have no symptoms?

70%

400

What is the dreaded complication of 2 common bacterial STDs that can lead to infertility?

PID, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

400

What population is most likely to be infected by the brain eating amoeba?

Boys under age 14 (we think because they roll around in the dirt in the shallow water)

400

When you go from the trachea to the 2 main bronchi what is that "fork" called?

The carina

400

What happens in emphysema?

Chemicals from smoke deposit on aveoli, which are tissue paper thin--they rip, create holes in lungs

400

Kids exposed to farm animals in the first year of life are --% less likely to develop asthma by age 6?

52%

500

Undiagnosed STDs cause approximately how many women to become infertile in the US each year? (Within 5000)

24,000

500
How many cases of the brain eating amoeba Naegleria Fowleri have been documented since 2013 (within 5)

30

500

Explain what happens physiologically to cause ARDS.

Insult causes histamine/seratonin release which opens spaces between aveolar membranes--aveoli start to fill with fluid, eventually overwhelm them and they can't do gas exchange

500

What 3 main things happen in chronic bronchitis?

Irritants from smoke cause increased mucus. Lungs can't get rid of the mucus well and it builds up causing chronic productive cough and airway remodeling/thickening.  Airway thickening makes it harder to pump blood to the lungs leading to right heart enlargement and eventually right heart failure.

500

Name 3 ways we treat asthma.

Avoid triggers, Bronchodilators, Steroids