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EM Comat TEST |Q&A’s Latest Update|Verified
who is the first person to report to if a medical device fails - ✔✔FDA
Smoke inhalation from a bbq- pt comes in with coughing, headache, myalgias, hoarseness,
wheezing...what should you think of - ✔✔CO poisoning- check an ABG and serum
carboxyhemoglobin
inhalational injury in a burn victim, how would you treat - ✔✔insert ET tube
glasgow coma scale - ✔✔
common fracture of thumb/ first metacarpal - ✔✔Bennet fracture
orbital cellulitis tx - ✔✔IV antibiotics and admission
tPA in a person with a suspected intracranial bleed? - ✔✔NO. NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH
BLEEDS.
What type of bronchoscopy to remove large foreign bodies - ✔✔RIGID bronchoscopy
Symptoms of SJS
what bipolar drug can cause this - ✔✔begins as a URI, which then progresses to a non-
pruritic, burning rash
LAMOTRIGINE!
, anterior nose bleed, what vessels are involved - ✔✔Kesselbach's plexus
if you have an anterior nose bleed, and you've already put pressure on it, what is the next step
what are the following steps - ✔✔oxymetolazine spray
silver nitrate or cauterization (for anterior)
place anterior packing- gauze, balloon, thrombogenic spray
test/intervention for pleural effusion - ✔✔thoracentesis
what differentiates hypertensive urgency from hypertensive emergency - ✔✔presence of
end organ damage
what is the treatment for hypertensive emergency - ✔✔nitroprusside
treatment for bleeding esophageal varices - ✔✔epi
octreotide
PPI
definitive tx- band ligation
Symptoms of Mallory Weiss - ✔✔starts of with non bloody vomit, then have one episode of
bloody vomit
tetanus vaccine recommendations - ✔✔Tdap>Td
give Tdap vaccine if patient has had more than 3 lifetime doses and the last one was 5 years ago
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