NYP's PCDs, ASAP
8:47am Wisdom
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Distant Relatives
100
This PCD keeps the encephalopathic patients behaving on 6GN.
Who is Denielle Lawtum?
100
This acute manifestation of sarcoidosis features fever, uveitis, and parotitis.
What is Heerfordt syndrome?
100
This P&S graduate went into anesthesia but developed an obstetrics scoring system in the 1950s that is still widely used.
Who is Virginia Apgar?
100
This antibody has 95% specificity for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.
What is anti-CCP?
100
These findings form a triad named for a distant relative of this intern.
What is hypotension, muffled heart sounds, elevated neck veins? (Beck's triad)
200
This PCD keeps the Swan Ganz catheters wedging in the CCU.
Who is Cecilia Ma?
200
Intravenous lytic therapy should be given to patients with acute MI if PCI is unavailable within this timeframe.
What is 120 minutes?
200
This P&S graduate gave up slit lamp exams to author medical thrillers, and has sold nearly 100 million of them.
Who is Robin Cook?
200
This antibody is useful for tracking disease activity in lupus nephritis, and is 60% sensitive for the diagnosis of SLE.
What is dsDNA?
200
This extrarenal finding in ADPKD might have gotten its nickname from this resident's distant relative.
What is a berry aneurysm?
300
This PCD keeps the urine flowing on 5GS.
Who is Dianna Smith?
300
In cases of epidural spinal abscesses, this is the single most important predictor of outcomes.
What is the neurological status right before surgery?
300
This P&S grad and former Columbia medicine resident made his name by banning smoking and trans fats in New York.
Who is Tom Frieden?
300
This is the most sensitive test for the diagnosis of mixed connective tissue disease.
What is anti-U1-RNP?
300
This test, named in part for a distant relative of this intern, involves removal of cerebrospinal fluid from wet, wobbly, and wacky people.
What is the Miller Fisher test? (for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus)
400
This PCD keeps MAPs above 65 in the MICU.
Who is Patty Rychcik?
400
This rare cause of hypokalemia results from constitutive overactivation of the ENaC channel in the collecting duct.
What is Liddle syndrome?
400
This P&S grad served as chairman and CEO of Merck, has published over 100 original articles, and recently donated 50 million dollars toward the creation of a new medical education building.
Who is Roy Vagelos?
400
This antibody is the most common among patients with dermatomyositis who also have interstitial lung disease and hyperkeratotitc, fissured skin on the hands.
What is the anti-Jo-1 antibody?
400
These six risk factors, identified by this intern's distant relative, are often listed by residents on the medicine consult service.
What are ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, history of stroke, history of diabetes requiring insulin, creatinine > 2, suprainguinal vascular or intraperitoneal or intrathoracic surgery? (Goldman's revised cardiac risk index)
500
This PCD used to answer 5-9150 but WILL be keeping the Truvada stocked on 7HS.
Who is Eileen Hernandez-Valdez?
500
Infection with Babesia was first known as this, named after the location where it was first documented.
What is Nantucket Fever?
500
This P&S grad counts the invention of the medical chart among his many accomplishments.
Who is William Halsted?
500
These antibodies form the ENA panel.
What are anti-Ro, anti-La, anti-RNP, anti-Jo1, Scl70, and anti-Sm?
500
These are major diagnostic criteria for a heart disease, widely used by cardiologists in the third world, identified by a distant relative of this intern.
What are carditis, polyarthritis, chorea, erythema marginatum, and subcutaneous nodules? (Jones Criteria for Rheumatic Fever)