Sweet golden elixir | JAMA RCE Asylum | Electrolytes | Name that disease | My beating (palpitating) heart |
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What is a RBC Cast?
SLIDE 1
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What is reduced tactile fremitus (LR 0.21)?
The absence of this finding is the best for ruling out pleural effusion
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What is Chloride?
Your kidney counts this electrolyte to determine its EABV
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What is MEN-1?
Hypercalcemia, Galactorhhea, Hypoglycemia
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What is hypokalemia?
SLIDE 6
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What is a Granular Cast?
SLIDE 2
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What is ascites (LR 7.6)?
This finding best rules in cirrhosis
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What is Calcium? (If you said magnesium, come and talk to me after ... you've just been accepted into a Nephology fellowship)
Elevated concentrations of this electrolyte causes a "lasix like" effect on your kidney
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What is PAN?
Intestinal angina, hypertension, renal micro-aneurysms
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What is WPW?
SLIDE 7
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What is a WBC Cast?
SLIDE 3
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What is an ulcer area greater than 2cm2 (LR 7.2)?
Will accept positive probe to bone (LR 6.4)?
This finding best rules osteomyelitis in a diabetic patient
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What is magnesium? (If you didn't say this, come and talk to me after ... you've been removed from the program)
Lack of this electrolyte causes PTH resistance
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What is aHUS?
MAHA, renal failure, confusion, normal ADAMTS-13
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What is Brugada syndrome?
SLIDE 8
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What is Candiduria?
SLIDE 4
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What is a pulsus paradoxus > 10 mm Hg (LR 3.3)?
In a patient with a pericardial effusion, this finding best rules in tamponade
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What is 110-125cc/hour (It is always this, but not really ... but really)
The dose of normal saline required to correct a 45yo M 60Kg patient with a Na of 115 without symptoms by 12 in 24 hours.
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What is Fabry's?
Ash leaf spots, LVH, Nephrotic syndrome
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What is Takutsubo cardiomyopathy?
43 F comes in with a STEMI after the death of her husband. Cornoary angiogram show normal coronaries with a dilated LV. The cardiologist tells her that she has a broken heart.
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What is Ethylene Glycol?
SLIDE 5
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What is a positive sleep test (LR 53)?
The best test for ruling in Myasthenia Gravis
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What is phosphate (if you said K, you would be right if this wasn't a 500 point question)
Low levels of this electrolyte can cause respiratory failure
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What is VHL?
Gross hematuria, ataxia, and uncontrolled hypertension
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What is a prominent y descent in CP?
This finding can be used to differentiate between constrictive pericarditis and tamponade (think wave form)
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