17 Flashcards
Persistent tachycardia and new arrhythmia (eg, PVCs) after blunt chest trauma are concerning for ___. Patients with these findings are admitted for what management?
Blunt cardiac trauma; continuous cardiac monitoring and echocardiography
Swimming in brackish water may expose people to what organism? It may cause cellulitis and, if ingested, sepsis, with hypotension and bullous skin lesions.
Vibrio vulnificus
What are the 2 general essential elements in defining brain death?
- Evaluating cortical and brain stem functions
2. Proving the irreversibility of brain activity loss
Symmetric fetal growth restriction begins in the ___ trimester and is due to what typical causes?
First; fetal conditions such as aneuploidy, congenital anomalies, and intrauterine infection
Asymmetric fetal growth restriction occurs in the second and third trimesters and is due to what typical causes?
Maternal conditions that cause placental insufficiency, maternal malnutrition
Define fetal growth restriction.
U/S estimated fetal weight <10th % for gestational age
What is asymmetric fetal growth restriction?
“Head-sparing” growth lag
3 steps in management of fetal growth restriction?
Weekly BPPs
Serial umbilical artery Doppler sonography
Serial growth U/S
Presentation - severe abdominal pain, uterine contractions, uterine tenderness, palpable, firm, tender mass, signs of inflammation (eg, leukocytosis) in pregnancy
Infarcted degenerating uterine fibroid
Dx and Rx uterine fibroid degeneration in pregnancy?
Dx - U/S
Rx - conservative management (acute pain control)
Primary responsibility of human chorionic gonadotropin (secreted by the syncytiotrophoblast)?
Preservation of the corpus luteum in early pregnancy
Presentation - medial deviation of the forefoot with a normal neutral position of the hindfoot, usually bilateral, most frequently in first-born infants
Metatarsus adductus
Distinguish congenital clubfoot from metatarsus adductus.
Clubfoot: rigid medial and upward deviation of both the forefoot and hindfoot, rigid positioning
Metatarsus adductus: flexible positioning, medial deviation of forefoot, neutral position of hindfoot
Management of MA vs. congenital clubfoot.
MA - reassurance
Clubfoot - serial manipulation and casting, surgery if refractory; consider karyotyping (increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities)
Presentation - erythematous, tender nodule at the lid margin
External hordeolum (acute inflammatory disorder of the eyelash follicle or tear gland)
Management of external hordeolum?
Warm compresses
If persistent or development of a large chalazion - possible incision and curettage
Features of blasts?
Fine nuclear chromatin
Small nucleoli
Scan agranular cytoplasm
Burkitt lymphoma is a neoplasm of mature B cells associated with ___ infection. Patients typically have a mass involving the mandible or abdominal viscera. Histologic exam shows a characteristic ___ appearance.
EBV; Starry sky
Hereditary spherocytosis inheritance pattern/associated ethnicity?
AD
Northern European
Clinical presentation of hereditary spherocytosis?
Hemolytic anemia (may present with RUQ pain from pigment gallstones)
Jaundice
Splenomegaly
Lab findings of hereditary spherocytosis?
Increased MCHC Negative Coombs Spherocytes on peripheral smear Increased osmotic fragility on acidified glycerol lysis test Abnormal esoin-5-maleimide binding test
Rx hereditary spherocytosis
Folic acid supplementation
Blood transfusion
Splenectomy if severe
H. ducreyi is a GN rod that causes STIs (chancroid) primarily in developing countries - when should it be suspected in the US?
People who trade sex for drugs or money
What is Gaucher disease?
Lysosomal storage disease with the accumulation of glucocerebroside in macrophages of the bone, liver, and spleen; accumulation results in cytopenias, bone pain, FTT, HSM, and delayed puberty
Inheritance pattern and ethnicity - Gaucher disease
AR
Ashkenazi Jews
Manage Gaucher disease?
Enzyme replacement
Acute symptomatic hyponatremia is a medical emergency that requires a prompt increase in the serum sodium concentration with ___ at a rate of no more than ___ to avoid causing CNS osmotic demyelination syndrome.
3% or hypertonic saline; 0.5 mEq/L/hr
Always consider ___ when a patient with parkinsonism experiences orthostatic hypotension, impotence, incontinence, or other autonomic symptoms.
Multiple system atrophy (Shy-Drager syndrome)
Distinguish benzo and opioid OD.
Benzo - lack of severe respiratory depression, lack of pupillary constriction
Normal pupillary size in bright light?
2-4 mm
Hypovolemia is a common cause of orthostatic hypotension and syncope, especially in elderly patients. What is the most sensitive indicator of this condition?
Decreased urine sodium (due to decreased renal perfusion -> RAAS activation -> aggressive sodium reabsorption)
Renal disease caused by rhabdo?
ATN
What is the mechanism of the change observed during the stress portion of a pharmacologic vasodilator stress test (when disease is present)?
Marked increase in blood flow in normal coronary arteries and a relatively small increase in blood flow in stenotic coronary arteries
3 types of stress tests?
Exercise EKG
Pharmacologic (adenosine or dipyridamole)
Dobutamine stress echo
Mechanism, indications, and contraindications to exercise EKG test?
Increased HR and BP
Best for patients able to reach target HR (85% of 220-age)
Not for LBBB, pacemaker, patients unable to reach tHR
Mechanism, indications, and contraindications to pharm stress test?
Non-selective adenosine agonist that dilates coronary arteries without increasing HR or BP
Best for LBBB, pacemarker, patients unable to reach tHR
Not for reactive airway disease, patients on dipyridamole or theophylline
Mechanism, indications, and contraindications to dobutamine stress echo?
Beta-1 agonist, increase HR +/- BP
Best for RAD, patients unable to reach tHR
Not for tachyarrhythmias
PPH typically occurs within hours of delivery and uterine atony is the most common cause. In post-C/S patients with hemorrhagic shock and no signs of uterine atony, what should be done?
Suspect intra-abdominal bleeding from uterine artery injury (possible retroperitoneal hematoma) -> emergency laparotomy
Erythematous papules that evolve into target lesions with a dusky central area, a red inflammatory zone surrounded by a pale ring, and an erythematous halo at the periphery; primarily located on the extremities
Erythema multiforme