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37 Cards in this Set
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Treatment for Myasthenia Gravis |
Neostygmine and Mestanon |
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Test for Myasthenia Gravis |
Tensilon |
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Medical vasodilator |
Nitro (sodium nipride) |
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Medicine to help control ICP |
Manitol (Osmitol) |
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What does Dilantin do? |
Treats seizures |
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Phenobarbital use |
TX for certain types of epilepsy |
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Isoproterenol (isuprel) use |
Blood pressure support and bradycardia |
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Survanta |
Txs and prevents RDS |
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Survanta dosage |
100ml/kg, divide 4 doses, install dose, vigorously ventilate for 30 sec, change position and repeat |
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Doxapram (Dopram) use |
Respiratory stimulant. Used for central sleep apnea |
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Cromolyn Sodium |
Preventative only. Antiflammatory. Prevents asthma attacks. Contraindicated in presence of wheezing. |
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Pentamadine Use |
AIDS (600mg monthly) |
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Verapamil |
Antihypertensive and calcium channel blocker. TX arrhythmias. |
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Digitalis |
Increases cardiac contractility |
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Aminophyline/ theophylline |
IV bronchodialator. Prevents and txs asthma, emphysema or bronchitis |
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Rifampin & isoniazid INH |
Antibiotics to tx and prevent tuberculosis |
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Tine test |
For allergies |
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V/Q scan |
Suspicion of pulmonary emboli (deadspace disease) aka blood clots |
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Coombs test (prenatal and neonatal) |
Used to determine anemia and transfusability (detects antibodies against RBC that are unbound in the pts serum. |
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ELISA test for |
AIDS |
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HDTV-III tests for |
HIV |
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Mantoux tests for |
Immunity to tuberculosis using intradermal injection of tuberculin |
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PPD (purified protein derivative) |
Skin test that determines if you suffer from TB. |
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Acid fast stain |
Test performed on a sample of body fluid or skin tissue and can determine if you have TB |
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P50 |
Hemoglobin affinity for o2, oxygen dissociation curve |
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Moro reflex |
Present in most all newborns. When the infant feels as if it's falling they spread out (abduction), unspreading the arms (adduction), and normally crying. |
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Babinski reflex |
Normal in child, indicates neuro problem in adult |
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Hering Breuer reflex |
Stretch reflex of the lungs (stops overinflation) |
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Rooting reflex |
Infant turn head toward anything that strokes it's face. |
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Reticulogranular |
IRDS |
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Grounds glass |
ARDS |
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Boot shaped heart |
TOF |
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Egg shaped heart |
Transposition of the great vessels |
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Transposition of the great vessels |
Egg shaped heart, aorta on right & pulmonary artery on left |
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Patent ductus arteriosis |
>15mmhg difference of p02 in pre ductus and post ductus. (Surgery) |
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Transillunination of chest |
Halo is normal. If chest "lights up" there is a pneumothorax. |
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Coarctation of the aorta |
Hypertension in upper extremities, hypotension in lower extremities, cyanosis despite fi02. |
