SIADH-inducing drugs remember the "ABCD"
🔴A: Analgesics like opioids, or NSAIDs

🔴B: Barbiturates

🔴C: Cyclophosphamide, Chlorpromazine, Carbamazepine

🔴D: Diuretic (thiazide)

🔶Coma: differential🔶

UNCONSCIOUS:

⚪️Units of insulin

⚫️Narcotics

🔴Convulsions

🔵Oxygen

⚪️Nonorganic

⚫️Stroke

🔴Cocktail

🔵ICP

⚪️Organism

⚫️Urea

🔴Shock

Infection & Anaemia:
🔴Parovovirus⇒Aplastic A
🔴Fish tapeworm⇒B12
🔴Blind loop⇒B12
🔴Malaria+Mycoplasma⇒
Hemolysis
🔴Hepatitis B+CMV⇒Aplastic

Capsulated microbes

"Some Nasty Killers Have Some Capsule Protection":

🔸Streptococcus pneumoniae

🔹Neisseria meningitidis

🔸Klebsiella pnemoniae

🔹Haemophilus influenzae

🔸Salmonella typhi

🔹Cryptococcus neoformans

🔸Pseudomanas aerigenosa

Catalase positive organims

SPACE:

🔴Staphylococcus aureus
🔵Pseudomonas
🔴Aspergillus
🔵Candida
🔴Enterobacter

Major depressive disorder is diagnosed in Pt with 5 of 9 symptoms, for 2 weeks or more (SIG E CAPS):

🌀 S: Sleep Changes
🌀 I: Loss of Interest (anhedonia)
🌀 G: Guilt

🌀 E: Energy loss

🌀 C: Concentration changes
🌀 A: Appetite changes
🌀 P: Psychomotor abnormalities
🌀 S: Suicidal thoughts

Altered Mental Status change: causes

AEIOU TIPS:

🌀Alcohol / Acidosis
🌀Epilepsy / Endocrine / Exocrine / 🌀Encephalopathy
🌀Infection
🌀Opioid / Overdose
🌀Uremia
🌀Trauma
🌀Insulin
🌀Psychosis
🌀Syncope / Stroke

Croup: symptoms

3 S's:
Stridor
Subglottic swelling
Seal-bark cough

Drugs with negative chronotropic effect:

1- Beta blockers
2-Digoxin
3-Verapamil
4-Amiodarone & Sotalol
5- Cholinergic agonists (Pilocarpine,Rivastigmine)

Mania: diagnostic criteria

Must have 3 the following (manics DIG FAST)

D: Distractibility
I: Irresponsibility
G: Grandiosity
F: Flight of ideas
A: Activity increase/Agitation
S: Sleep need decreased
T: Talkativeness

Cataracts: causes

ABCDE:

👁‍🗨Aging
👁‍🗨Bang: trauma, other injuries (eg infrared)
👁‍🗨Congenital
👁‍🗨Diabetes and other metabolic disturbances (eg steroids)
👁‍🗨Eye diseases: glaucoma, uveitis

Alport syndrome:
NEDH
- N: Nephrotic syndrome
- E: Eye abnormalities
- D: nerve Deafness
- H: Hematourea

CREST sydrome components:

🔴Calcinosis
🔴Raynaud's phenomena
🔴Esophageal dysmotility
🔴Sclerodactyly
🔴Telangectasia

Antepartum haemorrhage major DDx:

🔘Abruptio placentae
🔘Placenta previa
🔘Hemorrhage from the GU tract

Reactive Arthritis:
"Reiter's Syndrome"
1. Can't See (Conjunctivitis)
2. Can't Pee (Urethritis/Cervicitis)
3. Can't Climb a Tree (Arthritis)

* Associated with HLA-B27
* The most common triggers are intestinal infections (with Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter) and STIs (with Chlamydia trachomatis).

Meninges layers in order (PAD):

🔵Piamater
🔵Arachnoid
🔵Dura

ACE Inhibitors Contraindications:
PARK:

🔹Pregnancy
🔹Allergy/Angioedema
🔹Renal Failure
🔹K- Hyperkalemia (>5.5)