His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's NSTEMI
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's NSTEMI
Disease of this organ is the most common cause of mortality in hypertensive patients
What is the heart?
PDE4 inhibitor used in COPD
This class of chemotherapeutics causes cardiotoxicity
What are anthracyclines?
First step in the algorithm after determining the patient has true hypercalcemia (confirmed by two blood samples)
Patients on hydroxychloroquine require this type of monitoring
What is annual eye exams?
Which beta-blockers have been shown to reduce mortality in heart failure? (be veerrry specific...)
What are metoprolol succinate, bisoprolol, and carvedilol?
The volume at which outward recoil of the chest wall equals inward elastic recoil of the lung
What is the functional residual capacity?
Mucosal bleeding and a variably prolonged aPTT
What is Von Willebrand disease?
This is the amount of time you have to wait before screening for retinopathy in a newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patient
These are the four types of spondyloarthropathies
What is PAIR?
Psoriatic arthritis
Ankylosing spondylitis
IBD
Reactive arthritis
What is the most appropriate step to take for a young athlete who experiences Mobitz 1 AV block while sleeping?
What is reassure/do nothing
A farmer presenting with acute pulmonary symptoms who had been stacking hay earlier would likely be infected with this organism
What is actinomyces?
The drug class to think of when you see chromosome 9;22 translocation
What are BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors?
This diagnosis is characterized by hypernatremia with an elevated serum osmolality and a urine osmolality <300
What is diabetes inspidius?
This is the target serum uric goal for patients with gout on urate-lowering therapy
What is a uric acid < 6.0mg/dL?
The property of the SA node that allows it to act as the dominant pacemaker of the heart (compared to other cardiac cells)
What is the most rapid spontaneous depolarization?
A drug named for the second largest city in Canada
What is montelukast?
This is the age a 38 year old evaluated at his annual physical exam has to undergo a colonoscopy granted he has a father with colon cancer at the age of 52
What is 40?
(10 years younger or 40)
- first degree relative w cancer or advanced adenoma before age of 60
This is the reason why we offer drug holidays after 3 (IV) to 5 (oral) years of bisphosphonate therapy
What is the risk of atypical femur fracture increases with duration of therapy?
(Osteonecrosis of the jaw is NOT duration dependent, but rather can occur at any point during treatment)
This adverse effect is observed at a higher rate in Black and Asian populations initiated on Allopurinol
What is a hypersensitive rash that progresses to DRESS syndrome?
*Certain groups in this population need to be tested for HLA B58*01 before starting therapy
You would expect this to happen if you administered atropine to someone with type II AV block
What is worsening of the AV block?
The auscultation of the sound “AH” instead of “EEE” when a patient phonates “EEE”
What is egophony?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These are the 4 criteria needed to diagnose Lynch syndrome (5 + 6 are excused)
What is
- 3 family members w Lynch syndrome-associated cancer
- 2 successive generations affected
- 1 family member is a 1st degree relative of the other two
- 1 of the cancers are diagnosed before the age of 50
- FAP has been excluded
- Tumors have been histologically verified
These are the expected lab abnormalities in euthyroid sick syndrome
(TSH, T3, reverse T3 and T4)
TSH: suppressed but DETECTABLE (important)
T3: reduced
Reverse T3: increased
T4: low or low-normal
This antibody is measured in patients suspected to have statin-induced immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy?
What is anti-HMG CoA reductase antibodies?