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Image of seeing one self in an external space is known as

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Autoscopic hallucination

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This is where patient experiences complex visual hallucinations associated with no other psychiatric symptoms and no impairment of consciousness. Associated with loss of vision

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CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME

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Liliputian hallucination

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miniature people or animals.

associated with acute alcohol withdrawal.

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Explain differences between simple and complex hallucinations

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Simple = unstructured sounds (buzzing, whirring, whistling)

Complex = occurs as spoken phrases

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Somatic hallucinations: Superficial

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1. tactile
–> being toughed or pricked
–> formication (sensation of insects crawling on or below skin associated w/ cocaine use)

2. thermal
–> false perception of heat or cold

3. hygric
–> false perception of fluid

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Somatic hallucinations: Visceral

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False perceptions of the internal organs (throbbing, stretching)

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Somatic hallucinations: Kinaesthetic hallucinations

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false perceptions of joint or muscle

Limbs vibtrating

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What condition is important to rule out in the onset of olfactory and gustatory hallucinations :

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temporal lobe epilepsy

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Hypnagogic hallucinations

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brief hallucinations that take place as you’re falling asleep

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Hypnopomic halluncations

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false perceptions that occur as a person awakens

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Extracampine hallucinations

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e.g. seeing somebody standing behind you

occurs outside the limits of a person’s normal sensory field

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Functional hallucinations

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normal sensory stimulus required to precipitate hallucination in the same sensory modality

  • voices heard when doorbell rings
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Reflex hallucinations

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normal sensory stimulus in one modality which stimulates a hallucination in another

–> voices heard when a light is switched on

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Pseudohallucinations

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patients may have insight to what they are hallucinating

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Primary (autochthonous) delusion

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don’t occur in response to any previous psychopathological state

may be preceded by delusional atmosphere

example
–> suddenly without apparent cause having the delusional that you are an alien

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Secondary delusion

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  • secondary to morbid event

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these delusions match the patients mood, they are commonly seen in mania with psychotic features and in psychotic depression

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mood congruent delusions

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these delusions are extremely implausible content, and are characteristic of schizophrenia

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bizarre delusions

e.g. belief that aliens have planted radioactive detonators in the patients brain

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partial delusion

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belief that was previously held with delusional intensity, but then becomes held with less conviction

occurs when a patient is recovering

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paranoid delusions

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umbrella term that includes grandiose, persecutory

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erotomanic

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delusion of love

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othello syndrome

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delusion of jealousy

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Capragas syndrome, Fregoli syndrome

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delusion of misidentification

Capragas syndrome
–> characterised by false belief that someone important to them has been replaced by a clone

Fregoli syndrome
–> different people who are in fact a single person who changes appearance

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delusion of infestation

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Ekbom syndrome
–> delusion that you are infested with parasites

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Cotard syndrome

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nihilistic delusion
–> patient believes they are dead, do not exist

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delusion of control

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false belief that external forces such as machines or other people are controlling ones thoughts

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overinclusion of details and unnecessary asides and diversions

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circumstantial thinking

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diverting from initial train of thought and never returning to original point

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tangential thinking

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markedly accelerated thinking, resulting in stream of connected concepts

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flight of ideas

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loosening of associations

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train of thought shifts suddenly from one very loosely related idea to the next.

worst form –> word salad

AKA –> KNIGHTS MOVE THINKING

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new words created by the patient, often combining syllables if other known words

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neologisms

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echolalia

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patients seamlessly repeats words or phrases spoken around others

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Motor symptoms: catatonic rigidity

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maintaining fixed position and rigidly resisting all attempts to be moved

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Motor symptoms: catatonic posturing

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adopting unusual or bizarre position that is then maintained for some time

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Motor symptoms: catatonic negativism

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seemingly motiveless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be moved.

Patient may do opposite of what is asked

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Catatonic waxy flexbility

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patient can be moulded like wax into a position that is then maintained

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catatonic excitement

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agitated, excited and seemingly purposeless motor activity

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catatonic stupor

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  • lack of voluntary movement
  • extreme unresponsiveness
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Echopraxia

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patient senselessly repeats or imitated the actions of those around them

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Mannerisms

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goal orientated movements

performed repeatedly

or at socially inappropriate times

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Stereotypes

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complex, identically repeated movements

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Tics

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sudden, involuntary rapid recurrent, non-rhythmic motor movements or vocalisations

43
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Performance status score for cancer

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ECOG performance status

0 –> fully active, able to carry out pre-disease tasks

1 –> restricted in physically strenuous activity

2 –> ambulatory and capable of self care but unable to carry out any work activities

3 –> capable of limited self care, confined to bed or chair more than 50% of waking hours

4–> completely disabled, cannot carry on self care

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Myelodysplastic syndromes are characterised by

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–> pre-leukaemia

–> pancytopenia

–> dysplastic morphology

45
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What drug might be given for high risk myelodysplastic syndromes?

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AZACITIDINE
- restores expression of silenced tumour suppressor genes

46
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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia treatments

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  1. Chemotherapy
  2. CD20 antibody –> rituximab
  3. B-cell receptor signalling inhibitors –> ibrutinib or acalbrutinib
  4. Bcl-2 inhibitor
    - venetoclax
47
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Lymphoma imaging done with that imaging modality

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FDG PET
–> detect metabolically active malignancy lesions

48
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Lymphoma treatment

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  1. chemotherapy
  2. CD2- antibodies
  3. radiotherapy
  4. stem cell transplant
  5. antibody drug conjugate
  6. immune checkpoint inhibitors
  7. chimeric antigen receptor T cells
49
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Examples of chemotherapy which may be used in treatment of myeloma

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  • cyclophoshamide

melphalan

50
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Treatment of myeloma

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  • chemotherapy
  • steroids
  • lenalidomide
  • proteasome inhibitor
  • bisphosphonate
  • anti-cd38 monoclonal antibody (daratumumab)
  • autologus stem cell transplant
51
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Hyperkalaemia > 5.5

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repolarisation abnormalities

–> peaked T waves

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Hyperkalaemia > 6.5

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progressive paralysis of the atria

–> P wave flattening
–> PR prolongation

53
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Hyperkalaemia > 7

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conduction abnormalities / cardiac arrest

–> wide QRS
–> AV conduction blocks
–> sine wave
–> asystole, VF, PEA

54
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Indications for dialysis

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Very serious CAN’T WAIT
–> refractory hyperkalaemia
–> refractory pulmonary oedema

Others
–> severe metabolic acidosis (pH < 7.2)

  • Symptomatic uraemia (e.g. pericarditis, encephalopathy)
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Haemodialysis

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Diffusion of uraemic solutes across a semi permeable membrane

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Haemofiltration

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Convection of water with soluble drag across memrbane and replacement with fluid balanced solution

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Peritoneal dialysis

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fluid exchange between peritoneal capillary blood and dialysis solution in the peritoneal cavity

58
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What features may be seen in a thyroid exam?

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Legs
- pre-tibial myxedema (non pitting oedema)
- ankle reflexes; brisk in hyperthyroidism

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What is Pemberton’s test?

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  • raising both arms produces facial congestion and cyanosis
  • due to mass in superior mediastinum
  • produces obstruction of superior vena cava
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In a split thickness skin graft, how long does it take donor site to heal?

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will heal within 7-14 days

61
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Examples of a regional flap

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Gastroscnemius flap

Regional / pedicled flap
–> used when there is insufficient volume of adjacent tissue to close wound

62
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What is a DIEP flap?

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performed by taking lower abdominal tissue on its blood supply, plumbing it into the internal mammary vein

will require later nipple reconstruction

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Y4 - Finals Edition (40 decks)

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