What's in YOUR peripheral Brain

[aboveliquidice]

Over the Xmas break - I am planning to re-do my P.Brain...

What's in yours???

Electrolytes / Blood gas / CBC with diff
Guidelines
- JNC7
- Framingham 10 yr risk assessment
- STEMI vs NSTEMI vs Unstable Angina treatment
- ADA
- GOLD
- CKD
Common Calculations

What else???

~above~

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[RxWildcat]

Mine's gotta be pretty close to that, maybe add a few critical care guideline articles on top of the mess. Also lets throw in the coagulation pathway just for kicks.

 

[Glycerin]

What's in yours???

CHF
Anticoagulation
DM
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Tuberculosis
Migraines
Hyperthyroidism
Medicare Part D
Evidence-based medicine

...and sepsis and VAP.

 

[aboveliquidice]

CHF
Anticoagulation
DM
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Tuberculosis
Migraines
Hyperthyroidism
Medicare Part D
Evidence-based medicine

...and sepsis and VAP.

VAP = Vulcan Arterial Pressure, Venous-arterial Pressure, Vats at play, Varies Among Primates, Voodoo Animatronics Puppets, Villians Among Peeps...

You got me - What is VAP???

 

[RxWildcat]

Now what is "GOLD"?

GOLD is the COPD guidlines.

 

[Glycerin]

How about Ventilator Associated Pneumonia?

Bingo.

 

[aboveliquidice]

Bingo.

Nice - we have not done ID yet... supposed to be one of the hard blocks this spring. I was just looking at the APha peripheral brain - does anyone have any experience using it???

I am still updating my P.brain - we had a mini "rounds w/ attending" exercise on Friday. We had (2) patients. Here is the one I got...

29 yo white female reports to ED for severe nausea/vomiting and weight loss associated w/ pregnancy. She is a DM I, has Hypothyroidism for 6 yrs, pregnant for 26 weeks, and last week sprained her ankle. She is a high risk pregnancy due to a previous miscarriage.

She was the only one I really worked up - and I got owned. My problems list was sound, and my assessment was decent. However, I missed DVT prophylaxis. Also - I knew she was dehydrated, but I couldn't find a formula in my p.brain for pregnant women - using the standard forumla reports no water defecit (it uses Na as the primary indicator)... so I got owned on that too.

Was this patient especially hard? Or is rounding always like this?

~above~

 

[girllein]

brand/generic names for cancer and AIDS drugs

 

[iphetamine]

what are you guys talking about??

are you gonna study/review during the holidays, is that what's the thread about?

peripheral brain....?

 

[NormalSaline]

just maintaining my vast and recently acquired knowledge of OTC products and exclusions to OTC Tx

oh, and learning to ski or snowboard during a week vacation in Denver

P2 year ftw.

Then I get to go back and start my therapeutic modules