| Cause Its Sterile and I Like the Taste | JAMA RCE Asylum | Electrolytes |
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What is an 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 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 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 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 Liddle's?
This little known syndrome is define by: Expanded EABV, Low Renin, Low Aldo, High Bicarb, Low K
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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 SIAD?
Male patient. Low Na. Euvolemic. Low SOsm. UOsm 300. TSH normal. Cortisol Norma. ADH < 300.
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