Medical Terminology
Severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction
What is anaphylaxis?
Indicated for a number of medical conditions, one of it being allergic reaction anaphylaxis (please list 4 possible names)
What is EpiPen/Auvi-Q/Adrenaclick/epinephrine?
5 months (1 answer)
Routine schedule: What is the minimum time interval between the 2nd mRNA dose and first booster?
0.3 mL
What is the dosage for a Pfizer 12+ (gray cap) vaccine?
Inflammation of the heart muscle. Symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, abnormal heartbeat
What is myocarditis?
A class of emulsifiers/stabilizers used in some pharmaceuticals and food preparation
What is polysorbate?
Common skin rash that occurs when having an allergic reaction
What are hives?
4 months (1 answer)
What is the minimum time interval between the first booster and second booster?
0.2 mL
What is the dosage for a Pfizer 5-11 (orange cap) vaccine?
Inflammation of the lining surrounding the heart -- often causes sharp chest pain.
What is pericarditis?
A rare disorder where the body's immune system attacks the nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord.
What is Guillain Barre syndrome?
Drug class that helps prevent blood clots and reduce risks of heart attack, stroke, and death (eg. coumadin, aspirin, heparin)
What are anti-coagulants/blood thinners?
3 months (1 answer: IC)
IC patient: What is the minimum time interval between the 3rd mRNA dose (the additional dose) and the first booster?
0.25 mL
What is the dosage for a Moderna (red cap, blue border) booster vaccine?
A compound found in many foods, cosmetics, and medications. Examples: laxatives, skin creams, hair gel, gloves, and household cleaners.
What is polyethylene glycol?
Low platelets in the blood, can cause bleeding into tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury
What is thrombocytopenia?
Potentially life-threatening condition that may occur after patient takes heparin, a blood-thinning drug that helps prevent clots
What is heparin-induced thrombocytopenia?
2 months (2 answers: 1 routine, 1 IC)
Routine schedule: What is the minimum time interval between the Janssen dose and the first booster?
IC schedule: What is the minimum time interval between the additional mRNA dose and the first booster if you received Janssen as your first dose?
0.5 mL
What is the dosage for a Moderna primary series or additional dose vaccine?
Rare but serious condition in which different body parts become inflamed, including heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C or MIS-A)
Transplant of stem cells to replicate inside a patient to produce additional normal blood cells.
What is hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT)?
Conditions that may require HCT: leukemia, lymphoma, anemia, autoimmune diseases
Rare and life threatening side effect of Janssen & AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines where there is formation of blood clots and low platelet counts at the same time.
1 month (3 answers: 1 routine, 2 IC)
Routine patients: What is the minimum time interval between the first and second dose of Moderna?
IC patients: What is the minimum time interval between the 2nd dose of mRNA vaccine and additional dose for IC patients?
IC patients: What is the minimum time interval between the 1st dose of Janssen and the additional dose (mRNA only) for IC patients?
1.3 mL
What is the dosage of the diluent for the Pfizer 5-11 (orange cap) vaccine?
Type of treatment in which a patient’s T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the lab so they will attack cancer cells
Approved for treatment of some leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma
What are CAR-T-cell therapies (chimeric antigen receptor)?