Tx for Neurocysticercosis?
Albendazole
What is the time course of acute organ rejection?
What is the pathology?
1-12 weeks after transplant
CD8 mediated, leukocyte infiltration of Grady vessels, impairing perfusion
Patient with painful genital lesions and tender inguinal LAD?
Diagnosis?
Organism?
Treatment?
Chancroid
Hemophilus ducreyi
Options:
*consider empiric tx for syphyllis
What medications can induce acute angle closure glaucoma?
Anything that dilates pupils
What classes of medications (and examples for each) are used to treat acute glaucoma?
What med is contraindicated during thyroid storm because it increases serum T4 and T3?
Aspirin
Partial thickness burns > what % requires burn center?
10
*exception = hand or genital involvement
What abx for NEC in newborn?
Cefotaxime
Ampicillin
Flagyl
In frost bite, should blisters be de-brided?
- No if 3rd degree (hemorrhagic blisters)
Woman who recently gave birth, having seizures, without hx of seizure? Dx and management?
Eclampsia (can occur up to 6 weeks post partum)
Tx with IV Magnesium
-4 to 6 g bolus then 1-2g/hr drip
How can you distinguish LV aneurysm from stent thrombosis?
Lack of pain, no reciprocal changes
What cofactor needs to be administered in ethylene glycol poisoning?
Methanol poisoning?
- folate
Child 1-5 years old pw abdominal mass, asymptomatic. Diagnosis?
Wilm’s tumor (nephroblastoma)
-May also have hematuria or HTN
Tx = surgery and chemo (good prognosis)
How can you differentiate staph scalded skin syndrome from SJS/TEN?
SSSS = no mucous membrane involvement, usually preceding infectious symptoms, no medication exposures
*both SJS/TEN and SSSS can have bullae and nikolsky sign
Treatment options for low flow priapism?
How does head impulse test help differentiate peripheral and central vertigo?
- abnormal = peripheral
Patient with risk factors presents with no chest pain, but has biphasic or inverted T waves in anterior leads without ST changes….management?
Catch lab
*wellen’s EKG. Signifies critical LAD lesion. Usually an area that gets re-perfused with collaterals
Wellen’s sign is ______ on EKG.
Deep inverted T waves or biphasic T waves in sterile leads, usually V2 and V3.
Frequently chest pain free!
What is de-winter’s ekg ?
- ST depression of 1-3 mm with rapid upslope into peaked T waves in precordial leads
Aside from elderly or infant patients, who else needs ampicillin added to meningitis empiric treatment?
- immunosuppressed
XR in primary TB vs reactivation?
Primary = Ghon focus, unilateral peri-hilar or peri-tracheal LAD, sometimes normal CXR
reactivation = upper lobe infiltrate/consolidation, Cavitary lesion
Antibiotic choice for pre-septal cellulitis?
Something with MRSA coverage
How do patients with Sarin gas poisoning present?
Cholinergic toxidrome
1st line Abx for bacterial tracheitis?
Unasyn or clinda + ceftriaxone