Peer 8 - endocrine, metabolic, nutritional

Question 1

management of adrenal crisis?

Answer 1

aggressive fluids and pressors, treat precipitating cause, and correction of inadequate cortisol

Question 2

signs of adrenal crisis?

Answer 2

hypotension out of proportion to severity of that underlying illhess and hypotension refractory to standard resus

Question 3

factor for correcting sodium with hyperglycemia?

Answer 3

1.6 x amount of 100s above 100 hyperglycemia is aka 600 glucose would be 5*1.6

Question 4

most specific test for diagnosis of alcoholic ketoacidosis?

Answer 4

beta hydroxybutyrate

Question 5

Which vitamin tox includes intracranial hypertension, hepatotoxicity, and hypercalcemia?

Answer 5

vitamin A

Question 6

which vit tox causes flushing?

Answer 6

vit B3

Question 7

which vit tox causes peripheral neuropathies?

Answer 7

vitamin B6

Question 8

which vit tox cuases hypercalcemia?

Answer 8

vit D

Question 9

which vitamin deficiency causes night blindness?

Answer 9

vit A

Question 10

which vitamin deficiency causes wernicke-korsakoff?

Answer 10

thiamine vit B1

Question 11

which vitamin deficiency cauess pellagra? what is pellagra?

Answer 11

vit B3

diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis

Question 12

which vit deficiency causes scurvy? what is scurvy?

Answer 12

vit C

bleeding, gingivitis, poor wound healing

Question 13

which electrolyte abnornormality causes adynamic small bowel ileus?

Answer 13

hypokalemia