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Treatment of Mercury Poisoning
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Succimer (or other chelating agents: penicillamine, dimercaprol)
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Treatment of Lead poisoning
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Chelating agents (succimer, dimercaprol)
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Treatment of CO poisoning
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100 % O2
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Breath that smells like garlic is a sign of what type of poisoning?
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Arsenic
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Treating of Arsenic poisoning
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Succimer, dimercaprol
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Cyanide poisoning treatment
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First amyle nitrite, then thiosulfate
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Treatment of organophosphate poisoning
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Atropine
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Treatment of opiod overdose
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Naloxone
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Person comes to the ER unresponsive, what three treatments do you want to empirically give?
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Thiamine, Glucose, and Nalaxone. None will really hurt the patient, all may help lots. Remember: thamine before glucose.
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Treatment of Methanol overdose
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Ethanol (say what?!)
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Treatment of Guillian- Barre syndrome
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Plasmaphoresis or IVIG (steroids not helpful)
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Treatment of acute MS attack
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High dose IV steroids
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Treatment of choice of normal pressure hydrocephalus
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Surgical shunting
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Treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia
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amitrptyline
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EEG shows "three per second spike and wave pattern"
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Absence seizure
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Prophylaxis for close contact of N. menigitidis patients
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Rifampin or Ciprofloxacin
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Biopsy of a patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy will show what replacing the muscle fibers?
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Fat
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First test to order in a patient who presents with syncope.
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EKG to rule out major cardiac arrhythmia
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Axillary freckling, iris hamartomas, cafe au lait spots
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NF type 1
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Definitive treatment in a patient with Myasthenia Gravis
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Surgery to remove thymoma
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Occlusion of what vessel will cause amaurosis fugax?
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Central retinal ARTERY
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Another term for neurocardiogenic syndrome
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vasovagal response
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Fundoscopic exam findings described as "optic disc margin blurring" is the presentation of what state?
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Papilledema
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Weakness in abduction of the eyes
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CN VI paralysis
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Test of choice to rule of MS
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MRI
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CSF findings on LP of a patient with MS
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oligoclonal bands
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spondylolisthesis
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Anterior displacement of vertebrae on each other
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spondylolysis
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Pars interarticularis fracture
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spondylosis
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degenerative changes in the vertebrae
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Treatment of choice for Narcolepsy
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Modalfinil
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Cherry red macular in an adult
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Retinal artery occlusion
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What is the main risk factor for dementia?
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Age
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What is albuminocytologic dissociation?
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CSF findings on increased protein with normal WBCs, seen in Guillian Barree
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Treatment for giant cell arteritis
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High dose steroids for 1-2 months, then taper
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