Bugs
Drugs
Stroke
100
Klebsiella pneumoniae stains gram negative, with this morphology.
What are rods? (or bacilli)
100
This risk of this disorder causing a stroke is reduced with anticoagulation.
What is atrial fibrillation?
200
Respiratory viruses are generally transmitted via this mechanism.
What are droplets?
200
This manifestation of left middle cerebral artery stroke describes inability to process language.
What is aphasia?
300
This microaerophilic organism has minimal oxygen requirements, allowing it to survive in the human lung for decades.
What is Mycobaterium tuberculosis?
300
This intervention given more than 4 1/2 hours after a stroke may lead to the finding below
What is thrombolysis?
400
This organism has adapted to adhere to hardware and heart valves, sometimes requiring prolonged duration of antibiotic therapy.
What is Staph aureus?
400
If this character developed pulmonary hypertension, there is a good chance it was caused by this drug.
What is methamphetamine?
400
Not so fast with that labetalol . . . this strategy improves perfusion after an acute infarction.
What is permissive hypertension?
500
Valley fever occurs when a patient inhales the mold form of this fungus in an endemic area, and then it ruptures in the lungs due to the high temperature, spreading spherules that cause infection.
What is Coccidioides?
500
Repeat dosing of this antidote is often needed because its half life is shorter than many forms of the drug.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
500
We might expect this neurologic manifestation to accompany this finding.
What is left visual field loss?