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Potpurri- Science Daze
100

This endotracheal tube introducer can provide tactile feedback and is good for traversing narrow airways

Gum Elastic Bougie

100

Administer this electrolyte at high doses to prevent progression of eclampsia

Magnesium

100

The number of planets in our solar system

8

200

In addition to steroids, add this treatment to a child with stridor when croup is suspected

Racemic epinephrine

200

In severely hypokalemic patients, consider also repleting this electrolyte to aid in potassium absorption

Magnesium

200

Plants make their own food via this process

Photosynthesis

300

Consider needle aspiration or small caliber chest tube placement if a stable spontaneous pneumothorax is greater than this size (cm)

3 cm

300

Consider this when an ECG shows wide complex bradycardia

Hyperkalemia

300

In taxonomy, what classification comes just before genus

Family

400

This common class of medications should NOT be used to treat pneumonia if TB is suspected

Fluoroquinolones

400

Calcium correction is needed based on the level of this in the blood

Albumin

400

This is the acceleration of gravity

9.8 m/s/s

500

This is the antidote when you take pyridium and start becoming short of breath

Methylene blue

500

In one study, all digoxin toxicity patients with a potassium above this level died

5.5

500

The first known large-scale asphyxiation caused by a natural event occurred at this site

Lake Nyos

Cameroon, Africa