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Trauma Drama
Wire Wigglers
Gold Team Blues
Names to Know
Fluids & E-lytes
200
Electrical alternans on EKG, hypotension, JVD
What is pericardial effusion (tamponade)?
200
Artery involved with calf claudication
What is the superficial femoral artery?
200

This tumor marker can be elevated in both biliary obstruction and pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

What is Ca 19-9?

200
Extrinsic compression of the common bile duct from a gallstone within the cystic duct
What is Mirrizi's syndrome?
200

Risk factor for torsades de pointes

What is hypomagnesemia?
400
Hypotension, hypoxia, left-ward tracheal deviation (be specific)
What are signs of a right-sided tension pneumothorax?
400
Arteritis of the aorta and aortic brances
What is Takayasu's arteritis?
400
Organs involved in MEN I Syndrome
What are pancreas, pituitary, and parathyroid?
400
Esophageal web, Iron deficiency anemia, dysphagia, spoon-shaped nails, atrophic oral/tongue mucosa
What is Plummer-Vinson syndrome?
400

First step in treatment of hyperkalemia and why?

What is IV calcium to stabilize the myocardium?

600
GCS score for intubated patient who does not open his eyes but appropriately withdraws each extremity to painful stimuli
What is 7(T)?
600
Virchow's Triad for clot formation
What is hypercoagulable state, venous stasis, and injury to vessel?
600

This disease process results from incomplete rotation of the dorsal and ventral pancreatic buds.

What is an annular pancreas?

600
Thrombophlebitis of the throacoepigastric veins
What is Mondor's disease?
600
Disorder that may occur with rapid increase in serum Na.
What is central pontine myelinolysis?
800
4 areas surveyed in a FAST scan.
What are Morrison's pouch, splenorenal recess, Pouch of Douglass, and the pericardial sac?
800
Paraplegia, incontinence, and lower extremity numbness following AAA repair
What is anterior spinal syndrome (injury to Artery of Adamkiewicz)?
800

During the course of  a classic Whipple procedure, these three anastomosis are traditionally performed.

What is a hepaticojejunostomy, pancreatojejunostomy, and gastrojejunostomy?

800
Buttocks claudication and impotence
What is Leriche's syndrome?
800

Manifests as hyperreflexia, perioral tingling and numbness, prolonged QT interval.

What is hypocalcemia?

1000
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?
1000
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
1000
Longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy (treatment for chronic pancreatitis)
What is a Puestow procedure?
1000
Hernia through the posterior diaphragm, usually on the left
What is Bochdalek's hernia?
1000
Given in uremia to correct platelet dysfunction
What is DDAVP?