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This hormone, secreted from the posterior pituitary, increases water reabsorption in the kidney and is a key regulator of serum sodium.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
This opioid receptor subtype is primarily responsible for analgesia, respiratory depression, and euphoria.
What is the mu (μ) receptor?
This high-sensitivity laboratory test is the most specific marker for myocardial injury.
What is troponin?
These kind of questions are often most helpful in exploring patient's understanding of their illness and code status.
What are open-ended, exploratory questions?
This is the name of the football team on which Taylor Swift's soon-to-be husband plays.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?
A urine osmolality less than 100 mOsm/kg in a hyponatremic patient suggests this mechanism of hyponatremia.
What is primary polydipsia (or low solute intake)?
This term describes the body’s adaptation to a drug that results in decreased effect over time, requiring higher doses for the same response.
What is tolerance?
According to current guidelines, this is the target “door-to-balloon” time for primary PCI in STEMI patients presenting to a PCI-capable hospital.
What is ≤ 90 minutes?
A patient with a DNR order may still receive this type of care, which focuses on relieving symptoms such as pain, dyspnea, and anxiety.
What is comfort-focused care (palliative care)?
This pop sensation is featured on the title track.
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
This condition is characterized by euvolemic hyponatremia, urine sodium > 40 mEq/L, and concentrated urine despite normal renal, thyroid, and adrenal function.
What is syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH)?
A partial μ-agonist and κ-antagonist, this medication reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms while carrying a lower risk of respiratory depression.
What is buprenorphine?
Following PCI for ACS, the combination of aspirin and a P2Y₁₂ inhibitor for at least 12 months is known by this acronym.
What is DAPT (dual antiplatelet therapy)?
This document, often completed for patients with serious illness or limited prognosis, outlines medical orders regarding life-sustaining treatments and travels with the patient across care settings.
What is a MOLST or POLST form (Medical/Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)?
This song was allegedly written as a sly jab at BRAT superstar Charli XCX.
What is Actually Romantic?
During correction of chronic hyponatremia, overcorrection exceeding 8–10 mEq/L in 24 hours risks this potentially fatal demyelinating disorder.
What is osmotic demyelination syndrome (central pontine myelinolysis)?
This long-acting full μ-opioid receptor agonist, also an NMDA receptor antagonist, is used in maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder and for chronic pain management.
What is methadone?
ST-segment elevations in leads II, III, and aVF localize the infarct to this coronary artery territory, often associated with reciprocal changes in leads I and aVL.
What is the inferior wall / right coronary artery?
This is the approximate percentage of patients that live to discharge from the hospital after an in hospital cardiac arrest.
What is 20%?
“The Fate of Ophelia,” the opening track of the new album, references a literary character from this Shakespearean work.
What is Hamlet?
This medication is administered to deliberately reinduce water retention and slow or reverse rapid sodium correction in patients at risk for osmotic demyelination.
What is desmopressin (DDAVP)?
Before prescribing controlled substances, clinicians are required in most states to review this electronic database that tracks patients’ filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled drugs.
What is the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)?
Nitrates should be avoided in patients with inferior wall MI who have involvement of this cardiac chamber, as preload dependence can make hypotension life-threatening.
What is the right ventricle?
In end-of-life ethics, this principle supports withholding CPR when it is unlikely to achieve meaningful recovery or would cause disproportionate suffering, even if the family requests it.
What is the principle of medical futility?
These are the four album names for which Taylor Swift has won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
What are Fearless, 1989, Folklore and Midnights?