PassMedicine notes Flashcards
1
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What is Faget’s sign?
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- It is a relative bradycardia → HR slower than expected for a degree of fever
- sign of Typhoid Fever
2
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What ‘pea green’ diarrhoea is a sign of?
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Typhoid Fever
3
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What thick and thin blood films are used to diagnose?
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Malaria
4
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What Interferon-gamma release assays are used to diagnose?
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TB
5
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Whirpool sign on USS - what’s the diagnosis?
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Ovarian torsion
6
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The sequence of drugs and the routes given in PPH due to uterine atony
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- bimanual uterine compression to manually stimulate contraction
- intravenous oxytocin and/or ergometrine
- intramuscular carboprost
- intramyometrial carboprost
- rectal misoprostol
- surgical intervention such as balloon tamponade
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Why can we get pale stool and dark urine in the picture of jaundice (e.g. intra-hepatic jaundice)?
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- Dark urine is caused by conjugated bilirubinaemia resulting in bilirubinuria
- Pale stools result from reduced intestinal excretion of bilirubin and therefore reduced stercobilin formation
