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Seizure causes
4 Ms, 4 Is
Metabolic/electrolyte/hyperthermia
Mass/hemorrhage
Missing drugs (withdrawal, noncompliance)
Miscellaneous (eclampsia, HTN cerebral edema)
Intox (cocaine, lithium, lidocaine, theoph, metal, CO)
Infection (sepsis, meningitis, abscess)
Ischemia (stroke, TIA)
Increased ICP
Seizure, don’t know the patient…what labs to check?
Na, Ca, Glc, BUN
Tx for severe hypovolemic hypernatremia
Normal saline, then switch to 1/2NS once volume status is repleted
Tx for mild hypovolemic hypernatremia
D5 0.45% saline
Tx for euvolemic and hypervolemic hypernatremia
D5W (dextrose prevents the osmotic burst of free water)
Oral free water (mild)
Chronic cough w/ white sputum, worse at night (adult), no other URI/LRI symptoms…suspect what?
Asthma
Coronary angiogram and stenting –> AKI, abdominal pain, mottling of LEs, elevated eosinophils on CBC
Cholesterol emboli syndrome
When to Xray vs. MRI the back
XRay - osteoporosis, compression fxr, malignancy, Ank Spond, MM
MRI - sensory/motor deficits, cauda equina, epidural abscess/infection
Biggest risk factor for cerebral palsy
PREMATURITY (NOT hypoxia)
Function of adenosine in a stress test
Vasodilate the coronary vessels, thus exaggerating which vessel is blocked
Fever, pleuritic chest pain, hemoptysis, nodules w/ surrounding ground glass opacities in upper lobe
Invasive aspergillosis
Modified Wells Criteria
3 points = signs of DVT, or nothing more likely
1.5 points = previous DVT/PE, recent surg/immob, HR > 100
1 point = hemoptysis or cancer
4+ = PE
6-week child, dyspnea and crackles w/ feeding, VSD murmur, LUSB systolic ejection murmur, loud S2
Complete AV septal defect - DS
Baby, triple or quadruple gallop, LLSB systolic murmur
Ebstein anomaly
Baby, loud systolic ejection murmur w/ click LSB, cyanosis, tachypnea, heart failure
Truncus arteriosus - DGS
Baby, cyanosis, tachypnea, murmur, relatively comfortable
Transposition of great vessels