ABSITE Reviews Flashcards
Define specificity
Number of negative results/number without disease
Define sensitivity:
Number if pos test/number with disease
Familial FAP inheritance pattern?
Autosomal dominant disease
Type 1 alveolar cells function:
Gas exchange
Whats a normal ABI?
1
Initially tx of claudication?
Stop smoking
Exercise
Medical therapy
** no surgery
Mid shaft numeral fracture artery?
Radial artery / nerve
L5-S1 herniation, damage to?
S1 nerve root
Treatment of femoral shaft fracture in child?
Closed reduction
What stimulates secretin release?
Acidification of duodenum
Tx for dumping syndrome:
Small meals… Something else
What converts trypsinogen to trypsin?
Enterokinase in the duodenum
Conns syndrome:
Hyperaldosteroniam
2 causes if Conns?
Adenoma - adrenalectomy
Hyperplasia - spironolactone
4 indications of dialysis:
Hyperkalemia
Volume overload
Metabolic acidosis
Uremic encephalopathy/coagulopathy