- •Polypeptide
- •Negative urea breath test
- •Left gastric artery
- •Continuous infusion of calcium gluconate
- •Ringer lactate solution
- •Administration of oral metronidazole
- •Intravenous calcium
- •Decompress the right pleural space.
- •Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCg)
- •Urine vanillylmandelic acid (vma) level
- •Chest decompression with a needle
- •It was different
- •Gradual taper of bzd
- •Early onset
- •Social isolation
- •Nocturnal panic attack
A 56 year old anxious executive calls at 5:00 because he woke up with chest tightness and shortness of breath. He was scared that he was having a heart attack and he also reported feeling dizzy, trembling, and his heart was pounding, he thought he wasg oing to die. The symptoms subsided in 20 minute and by the time the emergency medical services arrived he was sitting in his living room and in no distress. The patient's electrocardiogram reading was normal and his cardiac enzymes were also found to be normal. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Nocturnal panic attack
PTSD
Psychophysiological insomnia
Somatization disorder
Myocardial infraction
Anorexia nervosa has mortality rate of up to approximately:
1%
18%
30%
42%
50%
What doesn’t cause manic episode???
carbamezopine
disulfiram
isoniazid
propranolol
bromocriptine
A 36-year-old pregnant woman is admitted to the medical center for possible infection associated with
intravenous heroin injection. She admit to heroin dependency. She is 5 month into her pregnancy and
would like to "quit the heroin for good" What is the best course of action in this patient?
A. Allow her to continue
B. Methadone maintenance
C. Naltrexone
D. Advise her to stop heroin and start supportive therapy
E. Buprenophine
What is the “gold standard” to diagnose munchausen by proxy?
A.the child will confess
B. By witness the caregiver causing harm to the child - from kaplan
C. the child improve when removed from caregiver
D.you find disease producing subjects in the care giver belonging
Postpartum psychosis
A. Occurs more commonly in multigravida women
B. Rarely correlates with perinatal complications
C. delivery almost always begins within 8 weeks of
D. Usually occurs abruptly, with no prodromal psychotic symptoms
E. Is essentially an episode of a psychotic disorder
14years old girl present to pediatrician ,she has “freaking out” describe shaking ,grasping for hair, feeling like going die for few min and resolve spontaneous in various time and various situations . Most likely diagnosis
a)dysthymia
b)social phobia
c) Separation anxiety
d) Panic
A 35-year-old woman has just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder. For the past 8months, she has had a depressed mood, decreased energy and concentration, and loss of interest inpreviously enjoyed activities. Although she never attempted suicide, she acknowledges that she thought she would probably jump off a local bridge if she ever had the chance. She denies any history of excessively elevated moods. You decide to start her on antidepressant therapy. Two weeks later, this patient is at greatest risk for
extrapyramidal symptoms
hypomanic episode
manic episode
medication noncompliance
suicide completion
Antidepressants should be used cautiously in cardiac patients because of increased risk of which
of the following?
Conduction side effects
Hypertension
Noncompliance
Suicide
All of the above
A patient with somatization disorder
has had physical symptoms for only 3 months
usually experiences minimal impairment in social or occupational functioning
may have a false belief of being pregnant with objective signs of pregnancy, such as decreased menstrual flow or amenorrhea
presents the initial physical complaints after age 30 years
has complained of symptoms not explained by a known medical condition
Which of the following is not a recommended treatment strategy for a patient with somatization
disorder?
Increasing the patient’s awareness that psychological factors may be involved
Having several different clinicians involved in caring for the patient
Avoiding additional laboratory and diagnostic procedures
Seeing patients during regularly scheduled visits at regular intervals
Listening to somatic complaints as emotional expressions rather than medical complaints
Suicide among schizophrenic patients
is most frequently secondary to command hallucinations
occurs most often in the later years of the illness
occurs most often in older female patients
is approximately 10 percent
is low
pervasive pattern of grandiosity, lack of empathy, and need for admiration suggests the diagnosis
of which of the following personality disorders?
Borderline
Narcissistic
Paranoid
Passive-aggressive
Schizotypal
An 18 y.o arrived to ED after assaulting a police officer in the street…generalized muscle weakness ataxia, nystagmus, slurred speech ...…. what did he take?
A. Inhalant
B. Benzodiazepines
C. Opioids
D. Hallucinogens
E. Amphetamines
Highest mortality rate from natural and unnatural causes :
A. schizophrenia
B. eating disorders
C. major depressive disorder
D.
E.
A hypomanic episode differs from a manic episode in that a hypomanic episode
A. lasts at least 1 week
B. lacks psychotic features
C. is severe
D. causes greater social impairment
E. all of the above
Serotonin syndrome
Least appropriate in NMS: antibiotics
The most dangerous at this point: acute manic episode
Tardive dyskinesia
Thyroid and depression (not sure about this)
