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Question 1

What are symptoms of acute angle-closure glaucoma? (7)

Answer 1

• Severe eye pain
• headache
• nausea/vomiting
• vision changes
• blurred vision with halos around objects and loss of vision
• conjunctival injection
• no dilation of pupil, nonreactive

Question 2

What causes acute angle-closure glaucoma?

Answer 2

There is elevates intraocular pressure due to an obstruction to outflow from the anterior chamber

Question 3

What are the symptoms of Temporal arteritis? (4)

Answer 3

• Headache
• scalp tenderness
• jaw claudication (pain in the jaw associated with chewing)
• reduce visual acuity

Question 4

What condition is temporal arteritis often associated with?

Answer 4

Polymyalgia rheumatica

Question 5

What is the characteristic sign of Central retinal artery occlusion?

Answer 5

Cherry red spot over the macula!!!!

Question 6

What is the characteristic sign of central retinal vein occlusion?

Answer 6

Blood and thunder appearance.

Question 7

What is the antidote to Acetomenophine?

Answer 7

N- acetylcystein

Question 8

What two methods do you NOT want to recommend in a person who has ingested a toxin?

Answer 8

Vomit

Give a cathartic

Question 9

What is the antidote to amphetamines/ cocaine

Answer 9

benzodiazepines

Question 10

What is the antidote to aspirin overdose?

Answer 10

alkalinization of urine with IV sodium braced, hemodialysis

Question 11

What is the antidote for benzodiazepine overdose

Answer 11

Flumazenil

Question 12

What is the anti-dote for beta-blockers

Answer 12

Glucagon, IV calcium, ventricular pacing

Question 13

What is the anti-dote for calcium channel blockers?

Answer 13

Glucagon, IV calcium, ventricular pacing

Question 14

What is the anti-dote for carbon monoxide?

Answer 14

100% oxygen, hyperbaric oxygen

Question 15

What is the antidote for Ethylene glycol (anti-freeze?)

Answer 15

Ethanol, hemodialysis

Question 16

What is the antidote for Warfarin (Coumadin)?

Answer 16

Vitamin K

Question 17

What is the antidote for Heparin?

Answer 17

Protamine sulfate

Question 18

What is the antidote for Insulin, oral hypoglycemic agents?

Answer 18

Glucagon, IV glucose

Question 19

What is the antidote for narcotic overdose?

Answer 19

Naloxone (not be confused with Naltrexone)

Question 20

What is the antidote for organophosphates (cholinergic)

Answer 20

Atropine

Question 21

What are the signs and symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning? (4)

Answer 21

• Headache
• Nausea and vomiting (due to item of the bowel)
• Confused or other altered mental status
• Tachypnea

Question 22

What are the symptoms or organophosphate overdose?

Answer 22

• Sweating
• Constricted pupils
• lacrimation
• excessive salivation
• wheezing
• cramps
• vomiting
• diarrhea
• tenesmus,
• bradycardia or tachycardia
• hypotension or hypertension
• blurred vision
• Striated muscle: cramps, weakness, twitching, paralysis, respiratory failure, cyanosis
• Sympathetic ganglia: tachycardia, elevated blood pressure
• CNS effects: anxiety, restlessness, ataxia, seizures, insomnia, coma, absent reflexes,