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100 Top Secrets (2) Flashcards

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Treatment for ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia

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Immediate defibrillation followed by epinephrine, vasopressin, amiodarone and lidocaine

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Treatment for ventricular tachycardia with a pulse

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Amiodarone and synchronized cardioversion

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FEV1/FEV ratio in restrictive disease

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more often normal

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FEV1/FEV ratio in obstructice disease

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less than normal

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5
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Most common type of esophageal cancer

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Adenocarcinoma from a longstanding reflux disease and development of Barretts

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Best initial test to distinguish upper from lower gastrointestinal bleeding

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Testing a NG tubeaspirate for blood

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One of the most common causes of GI complaints

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IBS

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young woman with a history of chronic constipation and diarrhea

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IBS

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9
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Diagnosis of IBS

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it is diagnosis of exclusion

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10
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Location of Crohn Dx

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Distal ileum, proximal colon

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11
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Location of Ulcerative Colitis

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Starts in rectum

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12
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Skip Lesions of GI tract

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Crohn Disease

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13
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Bloody Diarrhea, Pseudopolyps

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Ulcerative Colitis

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14
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Lead Pipe Colon

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Ulcerative Colitis

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15
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Ulcerative Colitis Complications (2)

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Toxic Megacolon, Colon Cancer

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Fistulas, Abscesses, Cobblestoning, string sign

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Crohn Disease

17
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Most common known genetic disease in white people

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Hereditary Hemochromatosis

18
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Treatment of hemochromatosis

A

phlebotomy

19
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2 most common causes of pancreatitis

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Alcohol or gallstones

20
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Enzymes elevated in Pancreatitis

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Amylase and Lipase

21
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Complicatiosn of Pancreatitis

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Pseudocyst formation, infection, abscess, ARDS

22
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Side Effects of Corticosteroids

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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

23
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Top 3 Cancers in Males

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  1. Prostate 2. Lung 3. colon
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Top 3 Cancers in Females

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  1. Breast 2. Lung 3. colon
25
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Top 3 mortality rate cancer in males

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  1. Lung 2. Prostate 3. colon
26
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Top 3 mortality rate cancer in females

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  1. Lung 2. Breast 3. Colon

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