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This is the recommended starting age for colorectal cancer screening in average-risk individuals in Canada
What is 50 years old?
This is first line treatment for those with hypertension who have diabetes and microalbuminuria
What is an ACE or ARB?
This type of dementia is often associated with Parkinson’s disease
What is Lewy Body Dementia?
The fish a person kisses when they get screeched in
What is a cod?
The nickname for Fifth disease (erythema infectiosum) which is a childhood condition that appears as a bright red rash on a child’s cheeks and is caused by Parvovirus B19
What is slapped cheek?
According to the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, women aged 50–74 should have mammograms for breast cancer screening at what frequency
What is every 2-3 years?
A fungal infection of the nail
Onychomycosis
This scale was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an older adult after they had been evaluated by an experienced clinician
What is the Clinical Frailty Scale
The NL phrase for “What are you up to?”
What is “Whadda y’at”?
The age over which medication can be used to treat symptoms of ADHD if indicated and below this age consultation is recommended.
The age at which cervical cancer screening should begin in Newfoundland, assuming a patient is sexually active.
What is 20 or 21 years old?
Heart Failure preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is defined as left ventricular diastolic dysfunction with an ejection fraction greater than this
What is 50?
This SSRI is preferred to antipsychotics as pharmacologic therapy for agitation in dementia
What is Citalopram?
This animal introduced by Sir Wilfred Grenfell is now the largest wild herbivore in NL
What is a moose?
The Centor Score (Modified/McIsaac) for Strep Pharyngitis has one of its criteria a temperature above this value.
What is 38°C (100.4°F)?
Name two recommended first-line tools for diabetes screening in adults over age 40 in Canada.
What are fasting plasma glucose and A1C?
Osteoporosis Canada recommends BMD measurement this many years after initiating pharmacotherapy
What is 3 years?
Name one of the tools used in Canada to assess the appropriateness of prescribing in older adults.
What is the STOPP/START criteria or Beers Criteria?
The first premier of NL
Who is Joey Smallwood?
This disease is an idiopathic avascular necrosis (AVN) of the epiphysis (growth plate) of the femoral head and is most commonly seen in males age 4-8
What is Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease?
Vaccine recommended for adults ≥65 years of age to prevent pneumococcal disease in Canada by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
What is 1 dose of pneumococcal 20-valent conjugate vaccine (Pneu-C- 20/Prevnar 20) or pneumococcal 21 valent conjugate vaccine (Pneu-C-21/Capvaxive)
This is a centrally acting α-adrenergic agonist that has some evidence for benefit in suppressing the sympathetic symptoms (hypertension, tachycardia) and anxiety associated with withdrawal
What is clonidine?
Symptoms of this sleep disorder include Dream enactment , Unintentional punching or kicking or Falling out of bed during REM sleep and can be an early sign of Parkinsons and other cognitive disorders
What is REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD)?
The year Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada
What is 1949?
Also called oral allergy syndrome, this syndrome is triggered by cross-reactivity between allergens in pollen and allergens in fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices.
Pollen-Food Syndrome (PFS)