Cancer Screening
Starting age for colon cancer screening receiving a grade B recommendation by the USPSTF 2021
45
Severe neurologic complication of Campylobacter jejuni infection
Guillain-Barré syndrome
This measure tells you how likely a test is to correctly identify patients with the disease
Sensitivity
Parasitic disease whose name derives from the Italian 'bad air'
Malaria
Pathophysiologic mechanism of systemic hypotension in a mechanically-ventilated COPD patient with incomplete exhalation
Auto–positive end-expiratory pressure (accept auto-PEEP; dynamic hyperinflation)
Starting age for breast cancer screening receiving Grade B by USPSTF
40
Ocular finding of redness without exudate that can occur with leptospirosis
Conjunctival suffusion (accept subconjunctival hemorrhage, circumcorneal conjunctival congestion, and chemosis)
In a clinic trial, this type of error occurs when you incorrectly reject the null hypothesis
Type 1 error (a error, false positive)
German physician credited for the discovery of the causative organism for tuberculosis
Robert Koch
Pulmonary complication associated with rapid removal of a large volume of pleural fluid
Reexpansion pulmonary edema (accept pulmonary edema)
Starting age for lung cancer screening (adults who have 20 pack year smoking hx and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 yrs) from USPSTF Grade B.
50
Acute, self-limited, febrile illness occurring in the first 24 hours of treatment of spirochetal infections
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (accept Herxheimer)
A new screening test for diabetes has a PPV of 80%, what does it mean
among those who test positive, 80% actually have diabetes
Organism ingested by internist Barry Marshall to prove its infectivity and association with disease (Aussie)
Helicobacter pylori
Antidote for methanol poisoning
Fomepizole
Or more EtOH :)
Name 2 screening strategies for colon cancer and frequency (except colonoscopy every 10 yrs)
1. High sensitivity guaiac fecal occult blood test (HSgFOBT) or fecal immunochemical test (FIT) every year
2. Stool DNA-FIT every 1-3 years
3. Computed tomography colonography every 5 years
4. Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years
5. Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 10 yrs + annual FIT
Bacterial infection transmitted via fecal-oral route for which there is an oral and intramuscular vaccine available
Typhoid fever (accept Salmonella typhi infection)
You have a study comparing mean systolic blood pressures between two independent groups. What stats test would you use?
Physician credited with first describing digital clubbing
Hippocrates (also known as Hippocratic fingers or nails; considered the oldest sign in clinical medicine)
Syndrome of hyperthermia and hyperreflexia and clonus
Serotonin syndrome
What age group is recommended to have cervical cytology alone for cervical cancer screening from USPSTF Grade A
21-29 years - cervical cytology alone
Extra info
30-65 years
1. Cervical cytology alone every 3 years
2. High-risk Human Papillomavirus (hrHPV) alone every 5 years
3. hrHPV testing with cyotology (cotesting) every 5 years
Vaginal pH above which meets one of the Amsel criteria for bacterial vaginosis
4.5
Diagnostic test for Toxoplasmosis has a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 90%. Prevalence of Toxoplasmosis in ICU population is 5%. What is the most likely interpretation of a positive test result?
Low PPV
PPV depends heavily on prevalence, if a disease is rare test loses accuracy.
Infectious disease prevention practice named for the Italian words meaning 40 days
Quarantine (quaranta giorni - holding arriving ships at anchor for 40 days before landing)
These are considered normal hemodynamic pressures. Name all
(CVP, PAWP, PADP, SVR, CO, CI)
CVP 2-8, PAWP 8-12, PADP 5-15, SVR 800-1200, CO 4-8, CI 2.2-4.0