Cardiology
Named after a famous Italian physician, this bedside maneuver increases the murmur of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) while decreasing the murmur of aortic stenosis
What is Valsava?
Most common cause for acute back pain
What is muscular strain?
This medication for opioid and alcohol use disorder acts by inhibiting mu-opioid receptor in the brain to reduce the rewarding effects and cravings of alcohol and opioids
What is naltrexone?
This is an explicit list of potentially inappropriate medications that older adults should generally avoid
What is Beers criteria?
Name of ventilator pressure required to promote alveolar recruitment and increase aerated lung volume
What is PEEP?
The creatinine threshold above which a patient earns 1 points in the RCRI for pre-op cardiac risk assessment
What is >2 mg/dL?
This is the number of pack years that defines the threshold for lung cancer screening in patients age 50-80 who currently smoke or have quit within 15 years. (per USPSTF guidelines)
What is 20 years)
The C-SSRS, a screening tool for suicide risk, was developed at this university in New York
What is Columbia University? (Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale)
A score below this number (out of a maximum of 30) on the MOCA assessment represents cognitive impairment
What is 26?
Intravenous anesthetic associated with green urine
What is propofol?
This term describes a palpable presystolic impulse in patients with mitral stenosis
What is opening snap?
A patient taking metformin for many years may be expected to develop a deficiency of this vitamin
What is vitamin B12? (likely due to malabsorption of cobalamin in the distal ileum)
The medical term for this condition is Veisalgia, and may occur after a night of heavy partying
What is a hangover?
What is timed up and go test?
Ratio of spontaneous tidal volume to respiratory rate used in ventilator weaning
What is RSBI?
Heart failure therapy involving biventricular pacing to improve cardiac output
What is cardiac resynchronization therapy? (accept CRT-D)
These are the Amsel criteria for Bacterial vaginosis. (must name at least 3)
What are:
This medication was approved for insomnia in 2014 and works by blocking orexin receptors
What is suvorexant?
This classic physical sign involves a pale or white ring around the cornea and is caused by lipid deposition in older adults
What is arcus senilis?
The criteria that defines Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is named after this European city
What is Berlin?
Mutations in the SCN5A gene are the culprit cause of this syndrome?
What is Brugada syndrome?
The Tdap vaccine protects against toxins produced by Clostridium tetanii, Bordetella pertussis, and which other bacterial species? (must name both genus and species)
What is Corynebacterium diphtheriae?
Known scientifically as Hypericum perforatum, this herbal agent has been used for over 2,000 years to treat depression
What is St. John's wort?
These are the 5Ms of geriatric medicine (must get at least 4/5)
What are mind/mentation, mobility, medications, multi-complexity, and what matters most
Antihistamine used in the treatment of serotonin syndrome
What is cyproheptadine?