OME Flashcards
Dx insomnia w/what criteria?
Difficulty falling asleep or waking up too early w/out ability to fall back asleep
3 nights/wk for 3 months
What is the basic treatment for HF?
Restrict fluids to < 2 L/day
Restrict salt < 2 g/day
What is the BEST test to Dx heart failure?
What else can you use?
Left Heart CATH
BNP, 2D echo (looking at EF)
What defines stage II HTN?
> 160 / 100
Acne pt w/severe pustular or nodulocystic disease treat how?
If SEVERE inflammatory or resistant?
PO Abx (Doxy, Eryth)
Isoretinoin —> do a UPT
COPD exacerbation w/out signs of infection treat with what?
Can check what level?
How will it look?
Doxycycline
Procalcitonin level
Decreased if viral
What diseases automatically are indications for statin therapy?
Vascular diseases:
Stroke
CAD
PVD
Carotid stenosis
StarCraft on your PC
Define bronchitis
Productive cough for > 3 months in 2 consecutive years
When do you give tPA for ACS?
Door to balloon should be no longer than how long?
Facility is more than 60 minutes away
90 minutes
UC flares are treated how?
steroids
Abx - Cipro and metronidazole
Quetiapine is useful to treat what?
SEs?
2nd line for Bipolar
QTC prolongation, weight gain
Salicylate toxicity causes what sx early in the disease? What acid base status?
Late in the disease?
Tinnitus, vertigo, hyperventilation —> respiratory alkalosis
Hyperpyrexia —> AG metabolic acidosis
What signs and symptoms will a chronic bronchitis pt have?
JVD, edema, HSM —> Right Heart Failure
INC pulm vascular resistance
Clubbing and edema
If a stress test is positive on a pt, what is the next step?
What kind of pharm stress testing can pts go through?
Elective CATH
Adenosine and dobutamine
What are TCAs indicated for?
Enuresis
1st line for neuropathic pain
What are the somatic complaints in GAD?
Restlessness Irritability Fatigue Muscle tension Trouble [ ] Sleep changes
What are the stages of sleep and their wave types?
BATS Drink Blood Beta - awake Alpha - Drowsy Theta - N1 Spindles - N2 Delta - N3 Beta - REM
Acute anxiety is treated how?
Chronic?
CBT, BENZOs
SSRI
What are the Kubler-Ross states of death and dying?
DABAD Denial Bargaining Anger Acceptance Depression
Mild persistent asthma:
Daytime sx?
Nocturnal sx?
FEV1?
Tx?
< 1 /day
> 2 /month
> 80%
SABA + Low dose ICS
Workup of a pt w/fever and cough w/suspected PNA?
CXR and SpO2
Pt experiencing yawning, lacrimation, N/V, and hurts everywhere with sweating is experiencing what?
Opiate withdrawal
What is acute dystonia?
Treated how?
Involuntary m. Contraction - torticollis, oculogyric crisis, etc
Benzotropine or diphenhydramine
A PCWP < 12 means what in the heart?
How do you find out this info?
Noncardiogenic origin
Right Heart CATH
How is grief defined?
Duration is how long?
Normal rxn that does NOT impair normal functioning and improves SPONTANEOUSLY
< 12 months
Intermittent asthma:
Daytime sx?
Nocturnal sx?
FEV1?
Tx?
= 2 / wk
= 2 /month
> 80%
Rescue inhaler aka SABA
Defensive injury against downward blow called what?
What breaks? What dislocates?
Galeazzi Fracture
Radius breaks, ulna dislocates
CKD pts get what BP medication to start?
ACEI or ARB
What is emphysema?
Destruction of alveolar walls at the terminal bronchiole that cause air trapping
When does baby blues occur?
With which baby?
Treatment?
1
Within 2 weeks
None
Presents pt w/COPD that wants to stop smoking, what do they need to know?
What is the best prognostic indicator?
Start 8 weeks before surgery bc congestion initially worsens
FEV1/FVC ratio
If pt has methanol or ethylene glycol poisoning, what can be given to inhibit conversion of toxic metabolites?
Fomepizole
What toxic substances do not cause an anion gap but do cause an osmolar gap?
Treatment?
Ethanol, isopropyl alcohol
Supportive
When does a COPD pt need at home O2?
pO2 < 55 on ABG
Or
SpO2 < 88%
What does COPD produce pathologically?
Airway inflammation and irreversible bronchoconstriction
When evaluating the heart with an Echo, what are you looking for during stress?
Dyskinesia (will be absent on rest)
What is HTN urgency?
Emergency?
BP > 180 or > 110 w/out evidence of end organ damage
> 180 or > 110 WITH end organ damage
What is rumination disorder?
Occurs in whom?
Regurgitation of food for at least 1 month
Infants or those w/developmental disorder
Pt w/HTN, tachy, dilated pupils is on what drug?
Cocaine
Refeeding syndrome causes what electrolyte abnormalities?
Low PO4
Low K+
Low Mg2+
Prior to starting Lithium for bipolar, what labs do you need?
Cr and TSH
Secretory diarrhea has what kind of Osmotic gap?
Blood or mucous in stool?
Nocturnal sx?
Change w/NPO?
Fecal fat?
Normal
No
YES
NO
Normal
What are the 2 methods of treating for specific phobias?
Systemic desensitization - takes longer, BEST to
Flooding - time-sensitive need
What contradicts non-cardiac surgery?
EF < 35% (75% chance of MI while IN surgery)
MI w/in 6 months (40% mortality at 3 months)
What are the 1st gen antipsychotics in order of strongest to weakest?
Haloperidol
Fluphenazine
Thioridazine
Chlorpromazine
What are the most prominent signs of heart failure?
S3
Laterally displaced PMI
MC cause of PNA in a COPD/Smoker?
Post viral?
Immunosuppressed?
H influ
Staph aureus
Legionella
How do you treat Impetigo?
If bullous or NO response?
Can lead to what if untreated?
Topical mupirocin
Clindamycin
PSGN
Defensive injury against upward black called what?
What breaks and what dislocates?
Monteggia fracture - MU
Ulna breaks, radius dislocates
COPD pt w/purulent sputum and/or increased production needs what?
Use what?
Abx
Amoxicillin, Bactrim, Azithro, Doxy
Osmolar gap < 50 in pt w/diarrhea means what?
> 100?
Formula is what?
Secretory
Osmotic
290 - 2(Na + K)
what is acute stress disorder?
Traumatic even LESS than 4 weeks from event
Pt will have anhedonia, hyper-vigilance, avoidance, flashbacks
What labs should you get baselines of when starting a statin?
Lipids, A1c, CK, LFTs
What causes erysipelas?
Describe it:
Treat how?
Symptoms?
Strep pyogenes
Dark red, well-demarcated, indurated lesion in ADULTS!!!
Beta-Lactams (Amoxicillin)
Acute onset fever and chills
How long do cardiac enzymes take to peak?
When can they be considered negative?
18 hours
2 sets separated by 6 hours NEG or 18 hours passes
1st Gen antipsychotics antagonize which receptor?
Treat what symptoms?
Cause what symptoms?
D2C
+ sx - hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thought
EPS - akathisia, acute dystonia, dyskinesia
GAD diagnosis criteria?
Treatment?
Anxiety most days > 6 months AND have > 3 somatic sx
Psychotherapy
- adjunct w/SSRI, buspirone
What is mild substance abuse disorder?
Mod?
Severe?
2-3
4-5
6+
What are atypical GERD sx?
Hoarseness, cough, NOCTURNAL ASTHMA
What is the 1st step in treating a heart attack w/ST changes in leads II, III, and aVF?
Why?
IVF
Bc right-sided infarcts are preload dependent
What is the 4th gen cephalosporin?
Used to cover what?
Cefepime
Pseudomonas
When does post-partum depression occur?
Which baby?
Feels how about the baby?
Treatment?
With 1 month
> # 1Doesn’t care about it, may hurt it
SSRI
Acetaminophen OD causes what?
Treatment?
Liver injury
NAC
Pt w/LDL 70-189 and what else are indications for statins?
Age 40-75 and DM
Age 40-75 and Calculated RFs
Hospital Acquired PNA MC bugs?
Treatment?
Pseduomonas, MRSA
Vanc + Pip/Tazo
Nitrates should be avoided with what kind of chest pain presentation?
Right-sided infarcts —> Leads II, III, aVF
HTN is defined how?
Dx how?
Greater than 140 or 90
2 separate BP taken at 2 separate office visits
Treatment for Barrett’s?
Dysplasia?
Adenocarcinoma?
High dose PPI
Ablation
Surgical resection
What causes central sleep apnea?
Path?
Treatment?
Opiates, COPD, idiopathic
Lost intrinsic drive to breath
BiPAP
SE’s of TCAs?
Widen QRS
Cause seizures
Coma or AMS
What are the 4 major categories of substance abuse disorder?
Controlling use
Social impairment
Risk taking
Physical/pharm changes
Tender prostate in the setting of a UTI is what?
Treat how?
Acute prostatitis
Bactrim or FQ
Ant dislocation of the shoulder, what is the position of the arm?
What can be damaged?
Dx how?
ABducted and ER
“Shaking hands”
Axillary nerve
Xray
What defines Pre HTN?
Syst < 140
Dia < 90
Sx of CO poisoning?
Hg Saturation is what?
Treatment?
HA, N/V, delirium
Normal, get a carboxyHg level
100% FiO2 and hyperbaric
Major complaint of pt w/OSA is what?
Diagnose how?
Long term consequences lead to what?
Daytime somnolence
15 OSA/hour or 5 apneas/hour AND Snoring/breathing pauses w/daytime somnolence
Pulm HTN -> RHF
What are the components of the Child-Pugh score for surgery?
Any single marker + means what?
Ascites Albumin Bilirubin Encephalopathy INR/PT
Mortality of 30-40%
Pt with suspected fracture of ankle and is ambulatory?
Nonambulatory?
Do Not Image
Xray
What is the 1st FQ? Treats what kind of bacteria? What condition?
Cipro
Gram (-)’s
UTI
Pt in a manic episode gets what med?
Made of what?
B52
Benadryl
Ativan
Haloperidol
What are the typical (intestinal) sx of GERD?
Retrosternal burning chest pain worse w/spicy foods and recumbency, better w/sitting up, antacids and cold water
1st step in ACS no matter what?
ASA PO
Then troponin levels
What are the 3 components of typical chest pain?
Substernal
Worse w/exertion
Better with nitroglycerin
Bulimia Nervosa severity categorized by what?
What is mild?
Mod?
Severe?
Extreme?
The PURGE
1-3 per week
4-7
8-13
> 13
Elderly pt FOOSH injury is what?
Colles’ fracture
What are the severe signs of anorexia nervosa?
Defined how?
Tx?
Bradycardia, leukopenia, HoTN
Fear of getting fat despite being underweight AND lack of recognition
CBT
What does SIGECAPS stand for?
Sleep - insomnia Interest - anhedonia Guilt - feeling worthless Energy - DEC Concentration - loss of it Appetite - loss of weight Psychomotor - slow thoughts, movements Suicidal Ideations
Pt that is pregnant and has major depression what is the best treatment?
ECT
Anti-endomysial ABs means what?
What answer never to pick in chronic diarrhea question?
Celiac disease
Stool Cx
Pt that is having flashbacks and hallucinations is experiencing what?
LSD
Biopsy of UC colon shows what?
When does colonoscopy screening begin? Continues when?
Crypt abscesses and superficial inflammation
8 yrs from diagnosis and continues annually
What is amnesic-confabulatory syndrome?
Retro and anterograde amnesia, confabulation after lots of drinking
How do you treat type A dissections?
Type B?
Surgery - replace aortic valve
Medically w/IV Labetalol or BBlocker
What defines stage 1 HTN?
> 140 / 90
What are the 5 stages in order of substance abuse?
Pre-contemplative Contemplative Preparation Action Maintenance
What is the Dx workup for dissection?
1 - R/O CAD w/EKG and Troponin
2 - XRay shows widened mediastinum
3 - CT Angio shows false lumen
4 - if renal dz do MRI/TEE
When on a statin, when should you assess lipids?
CK and LFTs?
Annually
Only when symptomatic
Acute asthma exacerbation what is the treatment?
Examine what?
O2
Duonebs
Corticosteroids
PEak flow, PE, ABG
To be considered HCA PNA must be what exposure?
Healthcare facility w/90 days
Acquire PNA w/in 48 hours of admission
Be on a ventilator
What are the 2 main theories behind anti-depressant therapy and what do they say?
Monoamine hypothesis - not enough nt’s so you sad (No serotonin or NE)
Plasticity concept - happy neurons tend to become easier to stimulate
Pt with LDL above what gets a statin?
190
Cyanide poisoning symptoms?
1st line tx?
2nd? Caution why?
Coma, seizure, HoTN, Heart Block, cherry red skin/blood
Thiosulfate
Amyl nitrate —> worsens CO poisoning
What are the types of demand ischemia in the heart?
Stable and unstable angina
NSTEMI
Pts w/CAD should be on what meds?
MONA BASH Morphine Oxygen Nitrates ASA
BBlocker
ACEI
Statin
Heparin
When do you go to surgery for AAA?
When do you screen q6mo? Q1yr?
When do you do surgery regardless of size?
> 5.5 cm OR growin .5 cm/6mo
> 4.5cm, > 3.5cm
Pain or tenderness of the aneurysm or BACK PAIN
Treatment for mild UC is what?
5-ASA or Mesalamine
When is AICD placed in HF patient?
What class must they be?
EF < 35%
III
ABG of COPD pt will show what?
CBC shows what?
Hypoxic hypercapnic respiratory acidosis
Erythrocytosis
How can the EKG look of a COPD pt?
RVH - for pulmonale or Right Axis Deviation
If no improvement in Peak Flow of asthma pt after 3 hours of continuous nebs, what happens next?
ICU
Pt has fever, cough w/Negative CXR, Dx?
Tx?
Bronchitis
Azithromycin, then Doxycycline
If no alarm sx with GERD, what is next step?
Best Dx test?
Pt that has GERD sx w/alarm symptoms needs what?
Treat w/PPI for 6 weeks
24-hour pH monitoring
EGD w/biopsy
What is the treatment for a CHF exacerbation?
LMNOP Lasix Morphine Nitrates Oxygen Position (elevate HOB)
Trazadone is used as what?
Mirtazapine?
Sleep aid
Appetite stimulant
MDD diagnosed how?
Treatment?
Must treat for how long?
5 SIGECAPS for at least 2 weeks
SSRI/SNRI
4-8 weeks at max dosing
Valgus stress means what kind of stress?
What is injured?
Dx how?
Lateral stress
MCL
MRI
HIV pt w/PCP also has what elevated lab value?
Dx how?
If pt has low PaO2 add what?
LDH
Silver stain
steroids
How do EtOH and BENZOs work?
Symptoms of withdrawal?
Treatment?
Stimulate GABA
Over-excitation —> HTN, tachy, tremors, anxiety, dt’s, coma
Long acting BENZO - chlordiazepoxide or diazepam
What is Disruptive Mood dysregulation disorder?
Kids having at least 3x /wk behavioral outbursts
Evident before age 10
What are the pathologies of diastolic HF?
MAIN Cause: HTN
Restrictive/Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Pericardial tamponade or constrictive pericarditis
How long is avg REM latency?
Shorter or longer in narcolepsy?
Depression?
40 minutes
Shorter
Shorter
What is the 3rd FQ? Treats what kind of bacteria? What condition?
Moxifloxacin
G(+) and G(-)’s
PNA
Bipolar diagnosed how?
3 symptoms + Elevated mood (mania) for at least 1 week
What are the symptoms of Right HF?
HSM, JVD
Peripheral edema
DOE, Inc JVP
How do you screen for AAA?
US in men who smoke, over 65 y/o
Femoral head fracture requires what?
Intertrochanteric?
Shaft?
Open fracture requires what?
Femoral prosthesis
Plates ORIF
Rods
Emergency washout
When do nightmares occur?
Memory?
Tone?
REM
Yes
No tone
How is dysthymia diagnosed?
Treatment?
Depressed mood for > 2 years w/out sx for > 2 months at a time
R/o hypothyroid and suicide
Then give SSRI
What is the goal BP for someone over age 60?
Everyone else?
Below 150/90
Below 140/90
How do you treat HTN emergency?
IV nitrates or CCBs to get MAP down 25% w/in first 2- 6 hours
CURB-65 stands for what?
Confusion of new onset
Urea > 7 or BUN > 19
Respirations > 30
BP < 90/60
65 or older
Symptoms of opiate withdrawal?
Treatment?
Lacrimation, Rhinorrhea, D/N, pain, dysphoria
Clonidine
Pt with asthma has FEV1/FVC ratio?
Can be affected how?
If no active disease do what to induce asthma?
Decreased
Reversed w/bronchodilators
Methacholine
Pt w/toxic ingestion of pills of unknown origin do what?
Activated charcoal
NG tube and gastric lavage if it has been less than 1 hour
What are the nt’s of sleep?
SAND Serotonin - Inc Sleep ACh - Inc Dream NE - Inc Dream, Dec Wake Dopamine - Inc Wakes
When does post-partum psychosis occur?
Which baby?
Feels how about it?
Treatment?
W/in 1 month
> # 1Fears baby, will kill it
Mood stabilizers and antipsychotics
What are the signs of Left HF?
Orthopnea, crackles, rales
DOE, S3
PND
What is the progression for COPD treatment?
SABA —> LAMA —> LABAL —> ICS —> PDE4- + steroids
Severe Persistent asthma:
Daytime sx?
Nocturnal sx?
FEV1?
Tx?
> /= 1 /day
Frequent
< 60%
SABA, High dose ICS + LABA
What is the 2nd FQ? Treats what kind of bacteria? What condition?
Levofloxacin
Gram (-)’s
Soft tissue infection
Post dislocation of the shoulder, what is the position of the arm?
What etiology?
Dx how?
ADDucted and IR
“Protected wrist”
Seizure or electricity
Xray
When do night terrors occur?
Memory?
Tone?
Treat how?
N3
No
Yes
Reassurance or BENZOs (don’t use them)
Chronic hypoxia of COPD in alveoli leads to what?
INC pulm vascular resistance and Pulm HTN
3/3 classic sx for chest pain called what?
2/3?
0-1/3?
Typical
Atypical
Non-anginal
What meds to use for CAP?
Moxi or Ceftraix + Azithro (IV) or Azithro (PO) If ambulatory
Urethritis etiology? Big symptom?
Treat with what?
STD - discharge
Ceftriaxone + Doxy
OR
Azithro 250 x 1 PO
Osmotic diarrhea has what kind of Osmotic gap?
Blood or mucous in stool?
Nocturnal sx?
Change w/NPO?
Fecal fat?
Increased
NO
NO
YES
Increased
Acne Pt with comedones treat with what?
If inflamed?
If they do NOT respond?
Topical retinoids
ADD benzoyl peroxide
ADD topical Abx
What consists of a complicated UTI?
Treat for how long?
Treat with what?
Penis - male
Plastic - foley
Procedure
Pyelo
7 days treatment
Cipro or IV Ceftriaxone
What does bupropion treat?
Smoking cessation
Depression
Prevents weight gain
Narcolepsy definition?
Diagnose how?
Treat how?
Rapidly plunge to REM sleep at least 3 times per week for 3 months
CSF hypocretin-1
Schedule naps, stimulants
Best way to treat grief?
Psychotherapy
Pt with edema, erythema, brown discoloration, and scaling has what?
What MAJOR sign involved?
Treatment?
Stasis dermatitis
Venous stasis ulcer at Medial Malleolus
Diuretics if volume overload, Compression stockings and leg elevation
What is tinea unguium?
Treat with what?
Diagnose how?
Onychomycosis (Nail infxn)
Terbinafine is BEST
Itraconazole is ok
KOH prep
Bipolar II is what?
Cyclothymia is what?
Hypomania and Major depression
At least 2 years of hypomanic and major depressive episode
Valproate treats what?
SEs?
1st line Bipolar if cannot use Li
Teratogen
Thrombocytopenia
Agranulocytosis
Pancreatitis
What is the best treatment for Acute Panic Disorder attacks?
BENZOs > psychotherapy
What SE can Beta blockers cause?
Bradycardia and syncope
Moderate persistent asthma:
Daytime sx?
Nocturnal sx?
FEV1?
Tx?
> /= 1/day
> 1 /week
60-80%
SABA, Low dose ICS + LABA
What are the pathologies of Systolic HF?
Leaky valve
Dead heart - ischemia/infarction
Floppy muscle - EtOH, HTN, Drugs