First step in treatment of (verified) hyperkalemia?
What is IV calcium to stabilize the myocardium?
300
GCS score for intubated patient who does not open his eyes but appropriately withdraws each extremity to painful stimuli
What is 7(T)?
300
Virchow's Triad for clot formation
What is hypercoagulable state, venous stasis, and injury to vessel?
300
Complication of pancreatitis that may require surgical drainage procedure
What is a pancreatic pseudocyst?
300
Thrombophlebitis of the throacoepigastric veins
What is Mondor's disease?
300
Disorder that may occur with rapid increase in serum Na.
What is central pontine myelinolysis?
400
4 areas surveyed in a FAST scan.
What are Morrison's pouch, splenorenal recess, Pouch of Douglass, and the pericardial sac?
400
Paraplegia, incontinence, and lower extremity numbness following AAA repair
What is anterior spinal syndrome (injury to Artery of Adamkiewicz)?
400
Tumor markers for pancreatic cancer (2)
What are CEA and CA 19-9?
400
Buttocks claudication and impotence
What is Leriche's syndrome?
400
Electrolyte abnormality that may occur in patients with severe necrotizing fasciitis resulting in muscle cramps and some numbness of the fingers and toes.
What is hypocalcemia?
500
Orthopedic injury in blunt trauma which has a high association with small bowel injury. (Includes fracture through vertebral body, spinous process, and pedicles, and disruption of the posterior spinous ligament.)
What is a Chance fracture?
500
Order in which you should clamp the arteries involved when performing a carotid endarterectomy.
What is (1) Internal carotid artery, (2) External carotid artery, (3) Common carotid artery
500
Longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy (treatment for chronic pancreatitis)
What is a Puestow procedure?
500
Hernia through the posterior diaphragm, usually on the left