Brain Farts
This is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system
What is glutamate
This is the "N" in TNM cancer staging
What is node
This is a type of shock that involves increased capillary permeability
What is anaphylactic shock
What is septic shock
(NOT cardiogenic, neurogenic, or hypovolemic)
In multiple sclerosis, this is attacked by the immune system
What is the myelin sheath
Weekend one of this iconic California music festival took place last weekend; weekend 2 starts Friday
What is Coachella
When comparing open-angle and closed-angle glaucoma, this is the one that develops more rapidly
What is closed-angle glaucoma
Although rare, when this STI is left untreated, it can become disseminated and affect the joints and skin
What is gonorrhea
90-120 is normal range
What is GFR (glomerular Filtration rate)?
Primary Zeitgeber for Circadian Rhythm
What is Light?
This ion is responsible for repolarizing the axonal membrane during an action potential
What is potassium
What term describes the normal, non-mutated versions of genes that code for proteins involved in cell growth and division, but can become oncogenes if they undergo certain mutations or are activated inappropriately?
What is proto-oncogene
In septic shock, this is the most common class of causative organism
What is gram-negative bacilli
A patient has a seizure that starts as rigid contraction of all muscles, followed by rhythmic contracting and relaxing of muscles. This would describe which type of seizures
What is tonic-clonic
This brilliant meteorologist and Chicago icon recently retired after 45 years on the air
Who is Tom Skilling
When a patient stops taking high-dose steroids for longer than a few days, this strategy must be employed
What is tapering
These are the two strains of HPV that are the most implicated in cervical cancer
What is 16 and 18
Progressive loss of renal function
What is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)?
First-line treatment for Insomnia
What is Cause-specific therapy?
Parkinsons disease results from degeneration of neurons that create this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine
A patient is receiving chemotherapy. You would tell them that they are most susceptible to contracting infection at what time point after chemotherapy administration
What is 10-14 days (nadir)
This lab value, a measure of anaerobic metabolism, is used to diagnose sepsis as well as to determine the extent of the disease and the effectiveness of treatment
What is lactate
Remember > 2 mmol/L is HIGH
This is a characteristic that, generally, newer AEDs posess that older AEDs do not
More expensive
Less teratogenic
Fewer side effects
Fewer drug interactions/less complicated pharmacokinetics
Less well-defined therapeutic niche
This nepo baby and rumored Selena Gomez enemy experienced an embolic stroke last year
Who is Hailey Bieber
A patient with low blood pressure, bradycardia, and warm extremities is most likely suffering from which type of shock?
Neurogenic
Patients with syphillis can develop gummas and neurosyphillis at this stage of the disease
What is tertiary
Acute kidney injury (AKI) due to hypoperfusion
What is Prerenal AKI?
Most prevalent sleep disorder
What is OSA (obstructive sleep apnea)?
A patient with atrial fibrillation forms a clot in their heart, which then travels to the brain and becomes lodged in the left middle cerebral artery. This would be diagnosed as which type of stroke
Ischemic -> Embolic
A patient would be considered thrombocytopenic if platelets fall below this number
What is 150,000/mL
This is the first vital sign to change in septic shock
What is respirations
Carbidopa blocks this, making L-dopa more effective
Peripheral decarboxylases
This singer's given name is Peter Gene Hernandez
Who is Bruno Mars
This is one of the positive effects of surgical debulking in cancer treatment
What is fewer cancer cells to kill
What is increased responsiveness of remaining cells to chemotherapy
These are three of the four criteria necessary to diagnose bacterial vaginosis
Thin, adherent gray vaginal discharge
Presence of clue cells on wet mount
Positive whiff test
Glomerular disease due to immune/inflammatory damage
What is NephrItic Syndrome?
Stage 3; most restful
What is N3?
A patient with a mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) of 86 and an intracranial pressure reading (ICP) of 18 has this cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)
What is 68
What type of leukemia would be diagnosed for a patient in which the cancerous cell is a precursor to monocytes, and there are greater than 20% blasts
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Patients experiencing anaphylactic shock will experience this, which is swelling of tissue secondary to capillary leakage, and often occurs around the oropharynx
What is angioedema
This is the cause of excitotoxicity
Excess of excitatory amino acids, especially glutamate, aspartate
University of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark was the #1 pick at yesterday's WNBA draft, going to this team
Who is the Indiana Fever
Tumor lysis syndrome will cause an elevation in these lab values
What is K+, Phos, uric acid
(calcium decreased)
This is the medical term for the warts cause by HPV (and it sounds like a spell from Harry Potter)
What is chondylomata acuminata
Calcium
What is the most common kidney stone (calculi)?
World's most popular drug
What is Caffeine?