9/10/21 Flashcards
What is the treatment for ketamine emergence phenomena?
Benzodiazepines.
What condition causes lower back pain that is worse with walking but improves with rest and bending forward?
Spinal stenosis
What is the treatment of choice for anemia in the setting of HUS?
Packed RBC transfusion.
Babesiosis
tick-borne illnesses in northeastern US
symptoms are similar to malaria as the organism infects RBCs causing fevers, myalgias, headache, and significant sweats
20% of patients co-infected with Lyme disease
Refeeding syndrome electrolyte abnormalities
hypophosphatemia, but also includes hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia
What is the organism responsible for invasive fungal infections on the face?
Mucormycosis caused most often by Rhizopus.
What is the treatment for a wide QRS interval or seizure in a sodium channel blocker overdose?
Sodium bicarbonate.
nder what conditions may an initial receiving hospital transfer an unstable or active labor patient?
An interfacility transfer may be initiated if the fully informed patient requests it, the initial facility is not capable of providing an urgently needed service, or an on-call physician refuses to respond to the ED.
What is pus in the anterior chamber called?
Hypopyon.
What is the most common cause of postpartum hemorrhage?
Uterine atony
Do you give ASA in cocaine chest pain
yes
also benzos
What is the drug of choice to reverse dabigatran?
Idarucizumab.
Charcot triad
Acute Cholangitis causing right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, fever
What is another name for a torus fracture?
Buckle fracture.
Erythema infectiosum is a mild viral disease of children caused by _______________
parvovirus B19
“slapped-cheek” appearance
