Noon Conference Jeopardy 1/3/25

Infectious complications

100

Term for strains of enteric Escherichia coli capable of producing Shiga toxin.

Enterohemorrhagic E coli

200

Term for objects or materials which are able to transmit infection if contaminated.

Fomite (accept fomes)

300

Eponymous name for severe leptospirosis infection complicated by fever, jaundice, kidney failure, and hemorrhage.

Weil disease

400

Aspergillus-specific serum immunoassay potentially useful in diagnosing invasive infection

Galactomannan assay

(Galactomannan (GM) is a polysaccharide antigen that exists primarily in the cell walls of Aspergillus species.)  

500

This term for cutaneous tuberculosis shares its name with an unrelated autoimmune disease

Lupus vulgaris 

Broken hearts

100

The region of the heart that is the target for ablation in atrial fibrillation ablation

Pulmonary veins 

200

Painless microabscesses on the palms and soles in infective endocarditis

Janeway lesions

300

This is the underlying pathologic mechanism behind cardiac arrest in young athletes struck in the chest (Commito Cordis) 

R-on-T phenomenon

400

Atrial arrhythmia with variable P-wave morphology and heart rate <100 beats per minute

Wandering atrial pacemaker

500

In pericardial tamponade, the 3 components of Becks triad

Jugular venous distension (accept JVD), diminished (accept muffled) heart sounds, and hypotension

Potent potables

100

Toxidrome characterized by decreased respirations, miosis, and altered level of consciousness

Opioid intoxication

200

Syndrome characterized by hyperthermia, hyperreflexia, and clonus

Serotonin syndrome

300

These are two treatments for methanol poisoning

Ethanol and fomepizole

400

Toxidrome characterized by GI upset (vomiting, stomach upset), neurologic manifestations, and, in chronic cases, palmar hyperpigmentation

Arsenic 

500

A patient has been taking anti-malarial prophylaxis with chloroquine for a recent trip. They present to clinic with a few days left in their course and are found to have a pulse ox reading in the mid 80s, blue lips, and dark brown colored blood when their blood is drawn. What is the condition AND treatment? 

Methemoglobinemia.

Methylene blue. 

Critical conditions

100

Pulmonary complication associated with rapid removal of a large volume of pleural fluid

Reexpansion pulmonary edema (just pulmonary edema is ok)

200

Diagnosis defined by new organ dysfunction and increased intra-abdominal pressure

Abdominal compartment syndrome

300

Pathophysiologic mechanism of systemic hypotension in a mechanically-ventilated COPD patient with incomplete exhalation

Auto–positive end-expiratory pressure (auto-PEEP; dynamic hyperinflation)

400

Eponym for echocardiographic finding of right ventricular mid-free-wall akinesia and apical hypercontractility associated with massive pulmonary embolism

McConnell sign

500

This dietary supplement has been proposed as a treatment for propofol infusion syndrome

L-carnitine

Trivial matters

100

This envenomation can lead to pancreatitis

Scorpion sting

200

This medication (which is still prescribed to this day) was discovered after a sudden wave of cattle deaths and later used as a rat poison

Warfarin

300

This medication was first isolated from salmon sperm 

Protamine sulfate

400

Name 3 causes of abnormal urine colors not on the clear to yellow spectrum (blood doesn't count)

Red/orange: rifampin, phenazopyridine, sulfasalazine, isoniazid, fluoroscein, acute intermittent porphyria

Green: propofol, amitriptyline, metoclopramide, indomethacin, promethazine

Blue: methylene blue, triamterene

Purple: purple urine bag syndrome

Black: methocarbamol, metronidazole, sorbitol

Not an exhaustive list!

500

This historical treatment for tuberculosis involved filling a cavity in the lung with materials such as air, olive or mineral oil, gauze, paraffin wax, rubber sheeting or bags and Lucite balls, in order to collapse the affected lung lobe

Plombage or pneumonolysis