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Respiratory depression inducing-drugs "STOP breathing":

⚪️Sedatives and hypnotics
⚪️Trimethoprim
⚪️Opiates
⚪️Polymyxins
✨Multiple pregnancy complications✨

Polyhydramnios
IUG retardation
Preterm labour
Antepartum haemorrhage
Pre-eclampsia
Abortion
List of bacteria hard to visualize and categorize with gram stain:
“These Rascals May Microscopically Lack Color”

- T: Treponema
- R: Rickettsia
- M: Mycobacteria
- M: Mycoplasma
- L: Legionella Pneumophilia
- C: Chlamydia
Test for diagnosis of Hereditary
Spherocytosis:

🔴Osmotic fragility test🔴
Drugs that act on microtubules (Microtubules Get Constructed Very Pooerly)

🔸Mebendazole (antihelminthic)
🔸Griseofulvin (antifungal)
🔸Colchicine (antigout)
🔸Vincristine/Vinblastine (anticancer)
🔸Paclitaxel (anticancer)
Chédiak-Higashi Syndrome:

🔹Autosomal recessive
🔹Microtubules polymerization defect (impaired fusion of lysosomes and phagosomes)

Symptoms:
🔸Neutropenia
🔸Recurrent pyogenic infections
🔸Partial albinism
🔸Peripheral neuropathy
Factors that make SLE active:

✔️UV (sunshine)
✔️Pregnancy
✔️Infection
✔️Stress
Schizophrenia negative features
"4 A's":

🔶Ambivalence
🔶Affective incongruence
🔶Associative loosening
🔶Autism
Tuberous sclerosis presenting features:

✨Zits, Fits, Deficits✨

🔴Zits: adenoma sebaceum
🔴Fits: seizures
🔴Deficits: neurological deficits
☠Large cell lung cancer🚬:

🔘High beta-hCG
🔘Gynacomastia
😰ARDS diagnostic criteria‼️

⭕️Acute onset
⭕️Ratio (PaO2/FiO2) less than 200
⭕️Diffuse infiltration
⭕️Swan-Ganz Wedge pressure <19 mmHg
Scrotum masses
SHOVE IT:

🔸Spermatocele
🔹Hydrocele/ Haematocele
🔸Orchitis
🔹Varicocele
🔸Epidymal cyst
🔹Indirect inguinal hernia
🔸Torsion/ Tumor
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: symptom triad
WASTER:

Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome is:
▪️Thrombocytopenia
▫️Eczema
▪️Recurrent staphlococcal infections
Colon cancer: risk factors
HULA:

🔹Heridity/ Heriditary diseases
🔸Ulcerative colitis
🔹Low fibre, high fat diet
🔸Adenomatous polyps
Important tumors associated with polycythemia as a paraneoplastic syndrome:

🔴Hepatocellular carcinoma
🔴Renal cell carcinoma
🔴Hemangioblastoma
🔴Pheochromocytoma
🔴Uterine myomata
Wernicke-Korsakoff triad
Syndrome in alchoholics, who love to "drink CANs of beer":

🔴Confusion
🔵Ataxia
⚫️Nystagmus
Alzheimer's disease: features
RONALD (Ronald Reagan, a famous victim):

⚪️Reduction of Ach
⚫️Old age
⚪️Neurofibrillary tangles
⚫️Atrophy of cerebral cortex (diffuse)
⚪️Language impairment
⚫️Dementia