Christmas
Physiology
Medical Christmas
Phobias
History
100
The author of the classic story “A Christmas Carol?”
Charles Dickens
100
Three cardiovascular changes at birth
What are:
1. Closure of ductus venosus
2. Functional closure of foramen ovale
3. Closure of the ductus arteriosus
4. Increase in the flow in the pulmonary circulation
5. Loss of the umbilical circulation to the placenta.
100
The other name for Christmas disease
Hemophillia B (factor IX deficiency)
Named after a child, Stephen Christmas in 1952.
100
What is Santaphobia
What is the fear of Santa Claus?
100
What is this laryngoscope blade?
What is the McCoy blade?
200
In which building was Die Hard set?
The nakatomi plaza
(the Fox Plaza building)
200
What are 3 reasons to have a functional residual capacity?
What are:
1. An oxygen store
2. Buffer to maintain a stable PaO2
3. Prevent atelectasis
4. Minimise work of breathing (keep lungs on steep part of the compliance curve)
5. Minimise PVR
6. Minimise V/Q mismatch
200
What links these two pictures?
What is kissing
(glandular fever-the kissing disease, and mistletoe)
200
What is Erythrophobia?
What is the fear of the colour red? (or blushing)
200
Can you name this piece of equipment?
What is the Goldman vaporizer?
300
How many of Santa's reindeer have names that begin with a D
3
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph
300
What is the alveolar gas equation
300
What is Christmas tree bladder
What is a hypertonic, vertically oriented bladder with trabeculations seen on cystography or CT.
It results from detrusor hyperreflexia, a disruption of the micturition reflex.
300
What is Christougenniatikophobia?
What is the fear of Christmas?
300
What is this?
What is A Manley ventilator.
A minute volume divider. Minute volume set with flow rate, and tidal volume with the side arm. Resp rate resulted from those two.
400
In which decade did Coca Cola start using Santa in their advertising?
1930s (1931) drawn by Haddon Sundblom
..webp)
400
The rate of diffusion of a gas through a tissue slice is proportional to the area but inversely proportional to the thickness
What is Fick's law?
400
What is holiday heart syndrome?
what are alcohol-induced atrial arrhythmias?
400
What is tarandophobia?
Fear of reindeer
400
Which mapleson circuit is this?
Mapleson A
500
What did Kevin McAllister have just before his family left to fly to Paris
A lovely cheese pizza, just for me
500
What Equation is this?
This is the Bohr equation. Used for measuring physiological dead space.
Named after Danish physician Christian Bohr
(1855–1911)
500
What is the prayer sign?
What is difficulty in approximating diabetic patients' palms and cannot properly extend their fingers?
100% sensitivity for difficult intubation in diabetic patients
500
What is Fayophobia?
What is the fear of elves
500
What is this? - We have one on the difficult airway cart at SMGH
What is an Aillon Tube Bender?