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17 Cards in this Set
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Class of drugs that may cause syndrome of muscle rigidity, hyperthermia, autonomic instability, and extrapyramidal symptoms? |
Antipsychotics (neuroleptic malignant syndrome)
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Side effects of corticosteroids?
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Acute mania, immunosuppression, thin skin, osteoporosis, easy bruising, myopathies
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Treatment for DTs?
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Benzodiazepines
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Treatment for acetaminophen overdose?
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N-acetylcysteine
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Treatment for opioid overdose?
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Naloxone
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Treatment for benzodiazepine overdose?
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Flumazenil
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Treatment for neuroleptic malignant syndrome and malignant hyperthermia?
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Dantrolene
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Treatment for malignant hypertension?
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Nitroprusside
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Treatment of artrial fibrillation?
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Rate control, rhythm conversion, and anticoagulation
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Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia?
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If stable, rate control with carotid massage or other vagal stimulation; if unsuccessful, consider adenosine
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Causes of drug-induced SLE?
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INH, penicillamine, hydralazine, procainamide, chlorpromazine, methyldopa, quinidine
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Macrocytic, megaloblastic anemia with neurologic symptoms
What type of deficiency? |
B12 deficiency
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Macrocytic, megaloblastic anemia without neurologic symptoms
What type of deficiency? |
Folate deficiency
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A burn patient presents with cherry-red flushed skin and coma.
SaO2 is normal, but caroxyhemoglobin is elevated Treatment? |
Treat CO poisoning with 100% O2 or with hyperbaric O2 if poisoning is severe or the patient is pregnant
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Blood in the urethral meatus or high-riding prostate
What is the cause? |
Bladder rupture or urethral injury
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Test to rule out urethral injury?
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Retrograde cystourethrogram
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Radiographic evidence of aortic disruption or dissection? |
Widened mediastinum (>8cm), loss of aortic knob, pleural cap, tracheal deviation to the right, depression of left main stem bronchus
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