,Two most common causes of Pericarditis - ANSWER✔✔ 1- idiopathic
2- coxsackie virus
Why is thrombolytic therapy contraindicated in pericarditis? - ANSWER✔✔ Can
precipitate hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade
Most common cause of Paronychia - ANSWER✔✔ Staph aureus
Most common cause of chronic or unresponsive paronychia - ANSWER✔✔
Candida albicans and atypical mycobacteria
Treatment for herpetic whitlow - ANSWER✔✔ Acyclovir
What artery may be injured or transected after knee dislocation? - ANSWER✔✔
The popliteal artery
Most common type of knee dislocation? - ANSWER✔✔ Lateral
What is the treatment for symptomatic bradycardia unresponsive to
transcutaneous pacing and medications? - ANSWER✔✔ Transvenous pacing
ECG findings in hyperkalemia? - ANSWER✔✔ 1. peaked T waves
2. prolonged PR
3. wide QRS
, Risk factors for spinal epidural abscess - ANSWER✔✔ DM or IVDU
Signs of spinal epidural abscess - ANSWER✔✔ Back pain, fever, neuro deficits
Most likely causative organism of spinal epidural abscess? - ANSWER✔✔ Staph
aureus
What is the lover's triad? - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Calcaneal fracture
2. Vertebral compression fracture
3. Forearm fracture
Which Salter-Harris fracture is the most common? - ANSWER✔✔ Type II
Which Salter-Harris fracture can be usually managed non-operatively? -
ANSWER✔✔ I and II
What are risk factors for growth arrest after a physeal injury? - ANSWER✔✔
Degree of initial displacement, residual displacement > 3mm, high energy
mechanism
What dose is prostaglandin E1 infusion started at? - ANSWER✔✔ 0.05-0.1
ug/kg/min
Which coronary artery feeds the inferoseptal wall? - ANSWER✔✔ right coronary
artery
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