Bronze Review Flashcards
If a patient has a fever, chills, nausea, rash on forearms and ankles, palms, and soles of feet after hiking or camping in the mountains
-Rocky Mountain spotted fever
How do you treat RMSF
-Doxycyline
Middle age lady has been out in the yard, long grass, has target bulls eye rash what is the likely diagnosis
- lyme
- Erythema migrains
Middle-aged man notes a lesion on arm with irregular borders, different colors, with some black. What is the likely diagnosis?
-melanoma
Slivery white scales on an erythematous base that are pruritic
-psoriasis
Koebner phenomenon
when there is a trauma and a scab forms but psoriatic plaque forming over top
Auspitz sign
If you take a psoriatic plaque and it starts pinpoint bleeding
Mom brings in 5 year old child. Child is complaining of itching, mostly at night, interdigital burrowing happening
scabies
What tx or instructions do you give for scabies
- permethrain cream
- treat close contacts
- wash everything in VERY hot water
Atopic triad is
- allergies
- asthma
- atopic dermatitis
Mom brings in 10-year-old child, who is scratching his leg, notes a ring with central clearing that is pruritic
-tinea corporis
Actinic keratosis is the precursor
SCC
Where do you usually see actinic keratosis
- sun-exposed area
- face
- nose
- ears
Actinic keratosis is
-a dry, pink, raised lesion
How do you treat actinic keratosis
5-FU cream
Cryotherapy
What is the gold standard for diagnosing skin lesions
-punch biopsy
Black or tan lesion that looks pasted on the skin, waxy, wart-like
seborrheic keratosis
What is cellulitis
- A skin infection
- Reddened
If you have a patient with diabetes and cellulitis you are concerned for:
-osteomyelitis
PAD presentation
- intermittent claudication (feels better at rest, painful when walking)
- feels better when dangling
- shiny
- hairless
- no edema
What is the test for PAD
ABI
What is an ABI diagnostic level for PAD
<0.9
What is 1 thing PAD patients must do?
-STOP smoking
Venous insufficiency presentation
- edema
- discoloration: leg is red/purple/dark
- varicose veins
What is happening in varicose veins and what is the risk associated with this?
- Blood is pooling
- risk for DVT
Erysipelas treatment
-penicillins (usually dicloxacillin)
Erysipelas
-well-demarcated rash on the face, like cellulitis of the face
If you have inflamed/infection skin you would consider
Keflex/Cephalosporins/Penicillin
Mastitis treatment and education
Keflex or Penicillin
-educate to continue to breastfeed
What is the treatment of MRSA
BCD
- Bactrim
- Clindamycin
- Doxycycline
If your patient is pen allergic, what medications would you give
Macrolide (ie. Azithromycin)
Whats the most common skin cancer
BCC
What does BCC look like
- Pearly
- Waxy
- Ulcerated center
Patient presents at 7 years old with a dome-shaped lesion, belly button looking, white plug, umbilication
-Molluscum contagiousum
If you see molluscum contagiosum in the genital region of children you need to
-consider abuse and report
The maculopapular vesicular rash starts on the trunk and spreads to heads, pruritic
Varicella (chickenpox)
Patients with varicella can return to regular activities when
lesions have crusted over
Acne 1st line treatment
-Topicals (Benzoyl Peroxides)
Acne that is not improved by topicals you will next implement
-Oral antibiotic (Tetracyclines)
If acne is not improved by topical or oral antibiotics, then you want to consider
-refer to derm for accutane
If patient is experiencing skin irritation from acne treatments suggest
- decrease frequency
- sun safety
Honey crusted lesions
Impetigo
How is impetigo treated
Mupirocin (Bactroban)
“iMpetigo and Mupirocin”
Scarlet Fever or Scarletina rash
sandpaper rash
Herald patch that starts on truck that then turns into a Christmas tree pattern
-pityriasis rosacea
1st-degree burn
and treatment
- redness, stinging and burning
- cold water, ice, topical burn cream or gel
2nd-degree burn and treatment
- partial-thickness
- redness
- blisters form** (BUZZWORD)
- pain
- tx: Silver, abx ointment, don’t pop blister
3rd-degree and treatment
- full-thickness
- painless
- go to ED
Rule of 9’s in burns adults
- Chest 18%
- Back 18%
- Arms: 9% each
- Head (front and back)= 9%
- Legs: 18% each
- Perineum 1%
Rule of 9’s in burns children
- Head (front and back) 18%
- Back 18%
- Chest 18%
- Arms 9% each
- Legs 13.5% each
- perineum 1%
Marijuana lowers ____ count
sperm count
Cocaine can cause ____ bleed
nosebleeds
Macular degeneration is a loss of ____ vision
Central
Patient presents with eye pain, cloudy cornea, tearing, halos what is the dx and mgmt
- acute angle closure
- “close the door” get them to the ER
What should the intraocular eye pressure be?
8-21
Patient presents saying they are seeing floater, flashes and like someone has closed the curtain on their vision
-retinal detachment
A cauliflower-like growth in the ear and the management
Cholesteatoma; refer to ENT
Ulceration on the inside of cheek or lip
-stomatitis
There is viral and apthous
-viral is multiple
-apthous is just 1
Optic disc that is swollen with blurred edges what is this?
-Papilledema
What is the underlying disease process in papilledema?
-Hypertension
When the artery in the eye crosses over the vein this is called
AV nicking; decreased blood flow to the eye; can have blurry vision or diplopia
AV nicking is seen in
hypertension
Whats the first thing to do if you have a patient present with a visual complain
-visual acuity
Koplik spots are associated with
Measles (Rubeola)
Measles presents with ___ and the 3 c’s
Fever +
- conjunctivitis
- cough
- coryza
and koplik spots
sensorineural hearing loss is always categorized y a ____ because conductive is simply a blockage
drug or otoxic drug
Meniere’s disease presents with
- vertigo
- tinnitus
- N/V
- nystagmus
- hearing loss
Weber lateralizes to ____ in conductive hearing loss
affected ear in conductive hearing loss
Rinne in the affected ear will be ____ in conductive
BC > AC
Weber lateralizes to ____ in sensorineural hearing loss
opposite ear
Rinne will be ____ in sensorineural loss
Normal
First line treatment for otitis media is
amoxicillin
If patient has had an antibiotic within 30 days and has OM treat with
Augmentin
What is the main organism that causes OM
-Strep pneumo
OME is treated with
decongestant
How is OE treated
Corticosporin drops
Xanthelasma is
Lipid deposits around the eye
Allergic Conjunctivits presents like
- bilaterally
- tearing
- *Stringy mucous
Bacterial Conjunctivitis presents like
- unilateral can go to bilateral (cross contamination)
- profuse tearing
- a lot of excuadte
- yellow crusted
What is the test for mono
- mono
- heterophile
Viral conjunctivitis presents like
- unilateral but can go to bilateraly
- a little tearing
- not a lot of exudate
Mono presents with
- fatigue
- pharyngitis
- cervical lymphadenopathy
- enlarged spleen
Mono patients can return to physical activity
when spleen is no longer enlarged ~`4-6 weeks; check by ultrasound