random wrong pastest Qs Flashcards
First line investigation for COPD exacerbation
ABG- assess for type 1 or 2 failure
Farmers lung
Hypersensitvity pneumonitis
Coxiella burnetti pneumonia
Hypercapnia symptoms
No improvement in sats with high-flow O2, flapping tremor, bounding pulse, palmar erythema
what contraindicates CF lung transplant
Burkholderia cenocepacia
what do you give patient whi is in AF secondary to penumonia?
Important to treat spesis with IV fluids and broad spectrum IV antibiotics.
Lobar pneumonia
Streptococcus Pneumoniae
Scleroderma
Connective tissue disease
Blunting of costphrenic angle
pleural oedema
percusion of Pleural effusion
Stony dull
Severe asthma
Peak flow 33-50%
resp rate >25
heart rate >110 bpm
unable to complete sentances
Life threatening asthma
peak flow <33% silent chest cyanosis ABG showing high or normal PaCO2. ABG showing hypoxia
Thoracentesis
Insert a needle avove the fifth rib in the-axillary line to sample pleural fluid.
methacholine challenge test
do this test on patients who have asthma like symptoms that occur within 24 hours after 1st exposure to irritant, gases, vapours or fumes.
Hormone responsible for ion exchange in saliva
Aldosterone
Positive for HLA-DQ2
Coeliac disease
Treatment of diverticular disease
Increase dietary fibre intake
Negative predictive value
the chance that the patient does not have the condition if the diagnostic test is negative
Elbsteins anomaly
Congenital defect leading to a large RA and a small RV known as atrialisation. Typically accompanied by tricuspid regurgitation.
Clotting fcators warfarin affects
1972- 10, 9, 7 and 2
Thiazide like diuretics action
inhibit Na+ Cl-co transporters
Branches of external carotid artery
Some Angry Lady Figured Out PMS
Superior thyroid (superior laryngeal artery branch) Ascending pharyngeal Lingual Facial Occipital Posterior
First line drug for IBS
meberivine
Pancreatitis pain
Abdominal pain that radiates to the back and is worse lying down.
Wilsons disease
genetic condition that causes a build up in copper in hepatocytes often seen as a ring around the eye. Symptoms are usually psychiactric (confusion/behvaioral changes) that often lead to liver cirrhosis.
