100 Top Secrets (2) Flashcards
Treatment for ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia
Immediate defibrillation followed by epinephrine, vasopressin, amiodarone and lidocaine
Treatment for ventricular tachycardia with a pulse
Amiodarone and synchronized cardioversion
FEV1/FEV ratio in restrictive disease
more often normal
FEV1/FEV ratio in obstructice disease
less than normal
Most common type of esophageal cancer
Adenocarcinoma from a longstanding reflux disease and development of Barretts
Best initial test to distinguish upper from lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Testing a NG tubeaspirate for blood
One of the most common causes of GI complaints
IBS
young woman with a history of chronic constipation and diarrhea
IBS
Diagnosis of IBS
it is diagnosis of exclusion
Location of Crohn Dx
Distal ileum, proximal colon
Location of Ulcerative Colitis
Starts in rectum
Skip Lesions of GI tract
Crohn Disease
Bloody Diarrhea, Pseudopolyps
Ulcerative Colitis
Lead Pipe Colon
Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis Complications (2)
Toxic Megacolon, Colon Cancer
Fistulas, Abscesses, Cobblestoning, string sign
Crohn Disease
Most common known genetic disease in white people
Hereditary Hemochromatosis
Treatment of hemochromatosis
phlebotomy
2 most common causes of pancreatitis
Alcohol or gallstones
Enzymes elevated in Pancreatitis
Amylase and Lipase
Complicatiosn of Pancreatitis
Pseudocyst formation, infection, abscess, ARDS
Side Effects of Corticosteroids
weight gain, easy bruising, acne, hirsutism, emotional lability, depression, psychosis, menstrual changes, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, memory loss, buffalo hump, truncal and central obesity with extremity wasting, round plethoric faces, purple striae,weak prox muscles, HTN, peripheral edema, poor wound healing, diabetes, osteoporosis, hypokalemia metabolic alkalosis
Top 3 Cancers in Males
- Prostate 2. Lung 3. colon
Top 3 Cancers in Females
- Breast 2. Lung 3. colon
