Board Review: Internal Medicine
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You’re working in the ED on a warm spring day and a 22 year-old female is brought in by EMS for respiratory distress. She has a past medical history of asthma and depression.
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Board Review: Acute Signs and Symptoms
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An 8-month-old male born at 36 wks without any complications with no medical problems who presents with wheezing, increased work of breathing, rhinorrhea and cough for the past 2 days.
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Board Review: Acute Signs
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A 50 year old male presents with 4 weeks of diarrhea and associated abdominal pain described as cramping. He reports multiple episodes of pale, loose and malodorous stools daily.
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Board Review: Trauma/Orthopedics
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80-year-old male PMHx Osteoarthritis, HTN, DM, COPD presenting to the ED after a mechanical fall.
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Board Review: OBGYN/SURGERY
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A 21 year old female presents to the ED with vaginal bleeding. She reports that a home pregnancy test was positive this morning. A beta hcg quant level is drawn and pending. On ultrasound you identify an extrauterine gestational sac without an IUP.
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Board Review: OBGYN/SURGERY
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A 28 year old female G2P0010 at 9wga by LMP presents to the ED with nausea and vomiting for the past 3 weeks. She reports that since she found out she was pregnant she has felt nauseated nearly every day. She comes to the ED today because she has begun vomiting and is unable to eat or drink much for the past week.
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Board Review: Winter Emergencies
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During your overnight shift, a homeless patient presents to the Emergency Department with hand pain. It is below freezing outside tonight. Tissue rewarming has begun, and below is what you see on exam. What degree of frostbite does this patient most likely have?
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Board Review: Winter Emergencies
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A cardiac arrest arrives to the Emergency Department in January. During the resuscitation it is discovered that the patient is severely hypothermic, and rewarming is begun. A serum potassium results. Which potassium level would prompt you to terminate resuscitative efforts?
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Board Review: Winter Emergencies
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It’s early winter in your Emergency Department, and an intoxicated 45 yo male is found outside. You see the following finding on the EKG at triage and measure a core temp of 89F. Other EKG patterns associated with this diagnosis include all of the following except?
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Board Review: Internal Medicine
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A 75 yo female with hypothyroidism presents to the ED with lethargy. She is hypothermic, hypotensive, and bradycardic. Further testing reveals hyponatremia and hypoglycemia.
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