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Polyuria, Polyphagia, Polydipsia, Tachycardia, Kussmaul Respirations, Warm/Dry skin and mucus membranes: These are all signs of what condition?
Hyperglycemia
Barrel chest, and pursed lip breathing are often associated with which respiratory disorder?
Emphysema
Acute onset facial droop, slurred speech, and right-sided weakness that resolved completely within an hour.
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
The protective layer of the stomach has eroded allowing acid to eat into the organ itself. This condition is called.
Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD)
Emergent unilateral testicular pain and swelling. Which condition should you be most suspicious for?
Testicular torsion
Altered mentation, Tachycardia, diaphoresis, slurred speech, seizures: These are all signs of what condition?
Hypoglycemia
"Blue Bloaters", chronic productive cough, and excessive mucus production are often associated with which disorder?
Chronic Bronchitis
Abnormal extension; The patient points their toes and extends their arms.
Decerebrate posturing
Abrupt onset of severe dysphagia, vomiting bright red blood, hypotension, and throat pain are typically signs of what condition?
Esophageal Varices
Women are more likely to have this condition after having a baby or a miscarriage, fever, chills, lower abdominal.
Endometritis
Signs and symptoms of acute adrenal insufficiency can appear suddenly, which is called an Addisonian crisis. This crisis is usually treated with which class of medication?
Corticosteroid
Sudden dyspnea, cyanosis, and a sharp localized pain to the right side chest. Cyanosis does not improve despite oxygen therapy. This is usually a hallmark of which condition?
Pulmonary Embolism
Bradycardia, Irregular breathing pattern (Cheyne-Stokes), and widened pulse pressure are signs of which condition?
Increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP)
Periumbilical pain, nausea, vomiting, low-grade fever, loss of appetite. Pain may extend later to McBurney point). What is this condition called?
Appendicitis
24 y/o female with dull LLQ pain that progressed to stabbing abdominal pain, with mild intermittent vaginal bleeding
Ectopic pregnancy
An extreme manifestation of untreated hypothyroidism with deterioration of mental status is called:
Myxedema Coma
A state in which a person's stimulus to breath come from a decrease in PaO2 rather than the normal stimulus.
Hypoxic drive
"Worst headache of my life", severe headache, projective vomiting. These are signs of what condition?
Hemorrhagic Stroke
Severe RUQ abdominal pain after eating a hamburger
Cholecystitis
What is the pathophysiology that causes severe pain in patients with sickle cell disease?
Vascular occlusion
The endocrine component of the pancreas that secretes insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin.
Islets of Langerhans
Your patient is in significant respiratory distress and is quickly impending failure. Lung sounds are absent in the bases and diminished in the uppers. What two medications are priority to this patient?
Epinephrine and Magnesium Sulfate
Complex Partial; Jacksonian
Epigastric abdominal pain with Cullen sign periumbilical are signs of which condition?
Pancreatitis
The process by which clotting factors work together to ultimately form fibrin. Hemophilia results when there is a factor or protein missing in this process.
(Name the process)
Clotting Cascade