EM Flashcards
Point tenderness and swelling over the midshaft of the radius from FOOSH. XRay shows?
Galeazzi’s fracture/dislocation fracture/dislocation involves a fracture of the mid or distal radial shaft with distal radioulnar joint dislocation.
Widened P waves in lead II and large negative deflection of the P wave in lead V1 mean what is enlarged?
LA enlargement
Sugar tong splints for which 3 parts of arm?
elbow, wrist, and forearm
Rubeola or measles causes what spots?
Koplik spots= salt-like crystals opposite the second molar
acute bacterial prostatitis who develops acute urinary retention?
percutaneous suprapubic tube
patient with a unilateral sensory or weakness finding on one side of the body and contralateral finding of weakness or sensory loss of the face has a lesion where?
Brainstem
Worst headache of life?
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Chance fx?
Vertebral fx d/t extreme flexion of spine. MC in thoracolumbar junction T11-L2
What is Brown-Séquard syndrome?
A hemicord syndrome. Ipsilateral loss of motor function, vibration, and proprioception and contralateral loss of pain and temperature sensation
Splint type for Scaphoid fractures?
Thumb Spica splint and refer to outpatient orthopedics
Tx for spasms and cramps from a widow spider bite?
BZDs
Bilateral facet dislocation does what to the spinal cord?
Complete transection
What will be found in urine with Ethylene glycol intoxication?
Calcium oxalate crystals
Presentation of anterior cord syndrome?
Loss of pain and temperature, loss of motor function
How often is the rabies immunoglobulin and vaccine given?
Immunoglobulin=one time dose
Inactivated rabies vaccine=given 4 times over 14 days
