Random NBS notes Flashcards
Lab for Myocardial Infarction
Troponin
CPK
SGOT
LDH
AKA for angina
cardiac ischemia
Risk test for inflammation of the arterial wall
CRP
Heart sound S1
AV valves
Heart sound S2
A&P valves
Auscultation points for heart
Mitral = L 5th intercostal Tricuspid= L 4th Pulmonic= L 2nd Aortic= R 2nd
1st and 2nd sign of heart failure
1st fatigue
2nd pitting edema
then check kidney function
Walking pneumonia in adult
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Foul sputum
Bronchiectasis (chronic infection)
Rusty sputum
Pneumococcal pneumonia
Currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella pneumonia
Increased fremitus, dull percussion
Fluid: CHF, pulmonary edema, bacterial pneumonia
Decreased fremitus, HYPER-resonant percussion
AIR: emphysema, pneumothorax
Atelectasis
Pleurisy
Friction rub, normal xray, sudden onset
Pleurisy
+ Schepelmann
Pleurisy
Increase pain when lean away from side involved
Resonance percussion, normal fremitus
Asthma
Bronchitis
Pleural effusion
Pink Puffer (Ballon Lungs)
Emphysema
Blue Bloater
Chronic Bronchitis
XRay: narrowed mediastinum, flatten hemidiaphragm and ribs, increased intercostal space
COPD
Emphysema
Lipase Amylase test
Pancreatitis
Arterial disease skin temperature
Cool
Venous disease skin temperature
Warm
Arterial dx skin color
Pale
Cyanotic
Venous dx skin color
Normal
Rubor (cyanosis later)
Arterial dx vessel color
Red, tortuous
Venous dx vessel color
Blue, bulging
Arterial dx swelling
N/A
Venous dx swelling
Dependent (drains when elevated)
Arterial dx: Raynaud’s phenomenon
Present
Venous dx: Raynaud’s phenomenon
Absent
Arterial dx trophic changes
Hair loss
Thin skin (smoking)
Vit C
Venous dx trophic changes
Hair loss Stusis dermatitis (bronze medial malleolus)
Arterial dx pulse
Weak
Heavy legs=PAD
Venous dx pulse
Normal
Arterial dx valve incompetence
N/A
Venous dx valve incompetence
Present
Atherosclerosis cause increase or decrease of peripheral pulse?
Decrease
Male, lower extremities, smoker, VASCULAR CLAUDICATION, reversible
Buerger’s / TAO (thrombo angiitis obliterans)
Buergers is arterial or venous disease?
BOTH
Bounding pulse, lateralizes, dissecting, immediate tearing pain
Aneurysm (arterial problem)
LBP (low back pain), decrease aortic supply to lower extremities, impotency in male
Leriche’s
Coarction of the aorta …… upper BP and …… lower BP
Increase
Decrease
Barium studies (which organs?)
Esophagus
Stomach
Black urine
Alkaptonuria
Black urine is associated with what condition
ochronosis
Ketones in urine associated with
DM, starvation
Glucose in urine associated with
DM, shock
Frank blood in stool associated with
Lower GI
Occult blood in stool associated with
Upper GI
GUAIAC test
Orange Urine
B Vitamins
Green Urine
Bilirubin
Red Urine, upper or lower tract?
Lower tract RBC
Smoky Urine, upper or lower tract?
Upper tract RBC
Stray/ Gray/ Clay color stool associated with
Biliary obstruction
Check: GB, Pancreas, Liver
Lab test for kidney
BUN (Increase)
Creatinine (best)
Albumin globulin
UA
Lab test for Liver
BUN (decrease) GGT SGPT-ALT LDH (tissue destruction) Bilirubin Albumin globulin
Downey cells
Mono
Atypical lymphocyte
Paul Bunnell
Heterophile agglutination
Mono lab test
Increase potassium lab
Addison’s (hypoadrenocorticoids)
Renal failure
Decrease potassium lab
Vomit
Diarrhea
Diuretics
What test measures electrical impulse in the brain?
Used for seizure
EEG
Dye injected to ouline KUB system, which then identify obstruction. Used for kidney stone.
IVP (Intravenous Pyelogram)
IVP AKA
Helical CT
Culdoscopy
To view female pelvis, used for ovarian tumo
To see the size of heart chambers. Used for valve competency, CHF, AAA
Echocardiogram
Diagnostic ultrasound is used for
Water densities
Aorta, pregnancy, bladder, VESSELS
Inject dye to subarachnoid space, provocation. Use for lateral recess
Myelogram
PNE, CNS, Radiculopathy special tests
EMG (muscle reaction)
Dynamometer/ grip strength (muscle strength)
Best test to visualize disc leasion - discopathy
Discogram – in neurosurgeon office
PET Scan purpose and condition
Metabolic activity in soft tissue
Lymph and breast cancer
Bone Scan/ Scintigraphy purpose and condition
Metabolic activity in bone
Lytic and blastic mets
MRI purpose
Soft tissue (spine) Vascular patterns
MRI condition
Disc Nerve Brain Stroke Joint Healing
CAT/ SPECT/ CT Purpose
Hard tissue (spine)
CAT/ SPECT/ CT condition
stenosis
fracture
bleeding (BLOOD)
lungs
Barium studies purpose and condition
To view lumen of GI tract
Ulcers - esophagus and stomach condition
Cardiac stress test condition
Claudication, heart pain
Dermatomyositis
Rash in eyelid and knuckles
Squamous cell carcinoma
Flaky, irregular, bleeding
Erythema migrans
Lyme disease
Central clearing
Acne vulgaris
Inflmmation of hair follicle, forehead, cheek, nose, chin
Actinic keratosis
hard, precancerous
Cellulitis
Staph/strep infection
ER!
Spoon nail (Koilonychea)
Iron deficiency
Fungus
Pitted nail is associated with
Psoriasis
Vertical lines on nail
aka spinter hemorrhage (SBE)
- valve (heart) problem
Transverse grooves or lines on nails
Systemic disease
Beau’s line
Clubbing of nail is associated with
COPD Arthritis Cancer Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy CHF RA
In older patients. Localized headache with increase ESR, associated with polymyalgia rheumatica, HTN, fever.
Confirmation test aspiration biopsy
Temporal arteritis
MC lung diease in elderly
Bacterial pneumonia
Referral for tempral arteritis
Ophthalmologist
Shuffling gait, resting tremor, cogwheel rigidity, bradykinesia are symptoms of…
Parkinsons
What condition cause Shepherd’s crook deformity
Fibrous dysplasia (also saber shin) Paget
Picture frame vertebra, bowing deformity, bone expansion, cortical thickening
Paget/ osteitis deformans
Secondary Hyperparathyroidism AKA
Renal osteodystrophy
Radiographic signs associated with secondary hyperparathyroidism
Rugger Jersey
Salth and pepper skull
Radial finger erosion
Vessel might calcified
Sandwich vertebra is associated with what condition?
Osteopetrosis (calcified cartilage causing unusually dense bone)
Pallegrini steida (from trauma, may reabsorb) management. Adjust or no?
Don’t adjust right away, wait until completely healed or after surgery
Vessel calcification on xray is associated with what condition
Hypertension
Hyperparathyroidism/ Renal osteodystrophy
Prog. Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma)
Silouette sign is associated wtih
Bacterial pneumonia
Clay Shoveler’s fracture
Avulsion fracture at C6-T1
Multiple block vertebra in the cervical
Klippel feil
Undecended scapula
Sprengel’s deformity
Napoleon’s hat/ Brailsford bow is associated with
Spondyloptosis
Don’t adjust
Spondylolisthesis MC location
L5
Spondy MC type
Isthmic (broken early in life from falling)
MC degenerative spondy level
L4
Spondy Type I
Dysplastic (congenital defect in pars)
Spondy Type II
Isthmic
Spondy Type III
Degenerative
Spondy Type IV
Traumatic
Spondy Type V
Pathological - disease causing pars defect
Spondy Type VI
Latrogenic - treatment induced
Spondy Type VII
Pending - Increased sacral base angle
Sagittal facets, trapezoid vertebra
Xray, MRI
Most common fracture
Clavicle