Buzzwords Flashcards
Metronidazole + what = bad?
Alcohol.
Statin plus what = bad!
Grapefruit juice.
Warfarin + what = bad?
Cranberry juice.
Warfarin + what = bleed?
NSAID.
Ace inhibitor + what = hyperkalaemia?
Spironolactone.
Digoxin + what = digoxin toxicity?
Verapamil.
Patient has a fever and a pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward?
Pericarditis.
Irregularly irregular pulse means?
Atrial fibrillation.
An ECG with a saw tooth baseline and a pulse of over 150 means what?
Atrial flutter.
What 5 things should we see on X-ray with pulmonary oedema?
Alveolar bats wings. Kerley B lines. Cardiomegaly. Dilated prominent upper lobe vessels. Pleural effusion. Remember ABCDE.
What does a raised JVP mean?
Right sided heart failure.
What gives a sense of impending doom?
MI
What gives a saddle shaped ST elevation?
Pericarditis.
What gives a broad complex tachycardia?
A ventricular problem.
What can we hear and feel with mitral stenosis?
Mid diastolic murmur with a tapping displaced apex beat.
What gives a broad QRS with slurred upstroke on the R wave (delta wave) on ECG?
Wolff Parkinson white syndrome.
What gives tall tented t waves?
Hyperkalaemia (also gives wide QRS complexes).
What does a patient have if they get pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI?
Dressler’s syndrome.
What gives a patient a blurred yellowing vision headache?
Digoxin toxicity.
When do we see janeway lesions or oslers nodes?
Subacute bacterial endocarditis.
What causes a continuous machine like heart murmur?
Patent ductus arteriosus.
What makes us see rib notching on CXR?
Coarction of the aorta.
What gives a crescendo descendo murmur?
Aortic stenosis.
What gives diminished absent lower limb pulses?
Coarction of the aorta.
What gives stony dull percussion?
Pleural effusion.
What gives right sided pleuritic chest pain?
Usually pneumonia.
What two things show a ground glass appearance on chest X-ray?
Pulmonary fibrosis and respiratory distress of the newborn.
What gives a positive ziehl-Nielsen staining?
TB.
What shows caseous necrosis in the lungs?
TB
What is the most likely cause of apical lung disease and what is the lesion called?
Most likely secondary TB.
Called an assmann focus.
How does miliary TB spread?
Organism spreads into bloodstream. If it spreads via the pulmonary artery, miliary dissemination into the lung occurs. If organism is spread via the pulmonary vein, there is systemic dissemination to the liver, spleen and kidneys.
What gives anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies?
Good pastures syndrome.
What is likely to have caused a chest infection if the patient has a parrot/pigeon as a pet?
Chlamydophila psittaci.
What is likely to have caused a dry cough and diarrhoea after a holiday abroad, with some indication of water spread?
Legionella pneumonia. Test urine for antigens.
What does a tall thin young man who indulges in marijuana likely have?
Probably a pneumothorax. Marfans.
What does a person with bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, erythema nodosum, granulomas, fatigue, uveitis and weight loss have?
Sarcoidosis.
What is the diagnosis of we see a bronchioles wider than the neighbouring arterioles on CT scan? What is this sign called?
Bronchiectasis
Signet ring sign.
What gives a D sign on X-ray?
Empyema.
What gives a steeple sign on X-ray?
Croup.
What does a child with a barking cough have?
Croup.
What underlying disease do patients with pneumocystis pneumonia generally have?
How do we treat the above?
HIV
Co-tramoxazole +/- prednisolone if severe.
What is samsters triad?
Asthma, nasal polyps and salicylate sensitivity.
What types of pneumonia are alcoholics prone to?
What organism commonly causes it?
Aspiration.
Klebsiella pneumoniae.
What organism gives red jelly sputum?
Klebsiella pneumoniae.
What organisms gives mucoid sputum?
Chlamydia psittaci.