MNEUMONICS Flashcards
Kids Syndromes: Macroglossia, small Mandibles, Cervical spine anomolies
Big Tongue - Beckwith syndrome, Trisomy 21
Please Get That Chin - Pierre Robins, Goldenhar, Treacher Collins, Cri Du Chat
Kids Try Gold - Klippel Feil, Trisomy 21, Glodenhar
Crycothyroid
CrycoThyroid
Cords Tense
Thyroarytenoid
They Relax
Posterior Crycoarytenoid
Posterior CrycoArytenoid - Please Come Apart
Lateral Crycoarytenoid
Lets Close Airway
Active Exhalation
I let the air out of my TIRE
Transverse abdominus
Internal oblique
Rectus abdominus
External Oblique
Increases Closing Volume
CLOSE-P
COPD
LV Failure
Obesity
Supine
Extremes of age
Pregnancy
Difficult mask ventilation
BONES
Beard
Obesity
No teeth
Elderly
Snoring
Motor Function Upper Extremity
Pusher, Pull Em, Pinch Me, Pinch U
Radial - extend forearm
Musculocutaneous - flex forearm
Median - pinch index finger (or palm)
Ulnar - pinch pinky
Motor function of Foot
TIPPED
Tibial: Inversion, Plantar flexion
Peroneal: Eversion, Dorsiflexion
PEDS: 25-50% of pts also suffer from other congenital anomolies
VACTERL
Vertebral defects
Imperforated Anus
Cardiac Anomolies
Trachoesophageal fistula
Esophageal atresia
Renal Dysplasia
Limb anomolies
S/E of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors
DUMBBELLS
- Diarrhea
- Urination
- Miosis
- Bradycardia
- Bronchoconstricion
- Emesis
- Lacrimation
- Laxation
- Salivation
Mapleson circuits: Spontaneous vs Controlled
Spontaneous - All Dogs Can Bite
Controlled - Dog Bites Can Ache
Can exacerbate Systemic Lupus Erythmatous (SLE)
PISSED CHIMP
- Pregnancy
- Infection
- Surgery
- Stress
- Enalapril
- D-penicillamine
- Captopril
- Hydralazine
- Isoniazid
- Methyldopa
- Procainamide
Risk of Torsades
POINTES
- Phenothiazines (-azines)
- Other (methadone, droperidol, amio)
- Intrathecal bleed
- No known causes
- Type I antiarrhythmics (Quinidine, Procainamide, Disopyramide, Lidocaine, Phenytoin, Flecainide, Propafenone)
- Electrolytes (decreased K, Ca, Mg)
- Syndromes (Timothy, Romano-Ward)
Femoral Triangle
SAIL
- Sartorius
- Adductor Longus
- Inguinal Ligament
Water Divided
60 - 40/20 - 15/15
- 60% of total weight
- 40% of that is ICF, 20% ECF
- 15% of ECF is Interstitial, 5% plasma
Causes of non-gap acidosis
HARD-UP
- Hypoaldosteronism
- Acetazolomide
- Renal tubular acidosis
- Diarrhea
- Uretosigmoidal Fistula
- Pancreatic fistula
*Also large NaCl infusions
Clotting Factors
Foolish People Try Climbing Long Slopes After Christmas, Some People Have Fallen
- Fibrinogen
- Prothrombin
- Tissue Factor
- Calcium
- Labile (proaccelerin)
- Stabile (proconvertin)
- Antiheamophilic (factor A)
- Christmas Factor (factor B)
- Stuart-Prower
- Plasma thromboplastin antecedent
- Hageman
- Fibrin stabilizing factor
Hormones released from Anterior Pituitary
FLAT PIG
- Follicle stimulating hormone
- Leutinizing Hormone
- Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
- Thyroid stimulating hormone
- ProlactIn
- Growth Hormone
Fetal Heart tones
VEAL CHOP
Variable - Cord
Early - Head
Accelerations - OK
Late - Placental Insufficiency
Gas Laws
Can These Girls Possibly Be Virgins
Cyanotic Shunt (R –> L)
5 Ts
- Tetrallogy of Fallot
- Transposition of great arteries
- Tricuspid valve anomoly (Ebsteins Anomoly)
- Truncus arteriosus
- Total anomolous pulmonary venous congestion
Epiglottitis S/S
4 D’s
- Drooling
- Dysphonia
- Dyspnea
- Dysphagia
CHARGE Association
CHARGE
- Colobomo (hole in eye)
- Heart defects
- Choanal Atresia (Nasal obstruction)
- Retardation of growth
- Genitourinary problems
- Ear anomolies