Sunday, November 30, 2014
Fournier's gangrene mnemonic
Risk factors for carcinoma stomach mnemonic
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Hematemesis mnemonic
Paraumbilical hernia mnemonic
Clinical vignette clues for multiple choice questions: Infected food and food poisoning.
This is for all those who are studying bacteriology.
Certain foods can transmit very specific infections, and examiners like to go after it. Make sure you know this list!
Food.. Infected food. |
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Tuberculosis spine mnemonic (Potts disease)
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Multiple sclerosis mnemonic
Things to know about multiple sclerosis -
When I made this, it was more like my check list on what to write in my exam. So I wouldn't exactly call it a mnemonic.
The words keep recurring in the mnemonic but I wrote them twice anyway (More revision, more recall, yaay!)
Multiple sclerosis
Upper motor neuron weakness
Uthoff's phenomenon
Lhermitte sign
Tingling numbness
Intention tremors
Posterior column features
Pulfrich phenomenon
Lhermitte sign
Exercise worsens symptoms
Scanning speech
Cerebellar signs
Continence problem
Lhermitte sign
Exercise worsens symptoms
Remitting features
Optic neuritis
Spasticity
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia
Scanning speech
That's all!
There is another simplified, "SINS" mnemonic as well.
-IkaN
Updated on 3rd December, 2014: Pulfrich phenomenon, suggested by Sujay Nigudkar
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Site of lesion of CNS disorders that cause involuntary movements mnemonic
Parkinson's disease is associated with resting tremor.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Nail disorders, diagnosis and abnormalities due to systemic diseases mnemonic
Let's get started :)
"BEAUTIFUL"
BEAU's line
Transverse (linear)
Indented (depressed)
Forward (moves distally with growth of nail)
Undernourished (seen in malnourished patients)
Lines xD
Treatment of thyrotoxic crisis mnemonic
Benzodiazepines (For agitation)
Cooling (External cooling, no salicylates)
Carbimazole
Digoxin (For cardiac failure)
What is the function of thyroid peroxidase?
Oxidation - Losing the negativity around you (For new relationships with good aminoacids like tyrosine) =D
Organification - Because Iodine is just a molecule and can’t be used by organs alone. It needs to be "organified" :P
Coupling - Why stay alone when love is in the air? <3
Insulin analogues and preparations mnemonic
"NO LAG"
Novalog
Lispro (Humalog)
Aspart (Novalog)
Glusiline
Regular insulin
Semilente
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Types of pulse mnemonic
In this post, I'll be mumbling about the character or quality of various types of pulse seen in medical physical examination. Since this is a super long post, let's get started -
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Congenital Talipes Equinovarus (CTEV) and club foot surgical treatment mnemonic
I talk about them in the video.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Ransons criteria for prognosis of acute pancreatitis mnemonic
It focuses on how to remember the various numerical values and how to memorize the mnemonic itself lol.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Adverse effects and contraindications of steroids mnemonic
G - Glaucoma (On typical use)
L - Limb muscle atrophy
U - Ulcer (Peptic ulcer)
C - Cushing syndrome
O - Osteoporosis
C - Cataract (On systemic use)
O - Osteoporosis (Avascular necrosis of head of femur)
R - c/I in Renal failure
T - c/I in Tuberculosis
I - Impairs healing
C - c/I in CHF
O- Oedema
I - Infections (Immunosuppressive)
D - Diabetes mellitus
S - Suppression of HPA axis
This mnemonic was submitted by Parth Mali. Tumaro abhar, Parth!
Cerebellar lesion clinical signs and symptoms mnemonic
That's your cerebellum!
(We'll be talking about it today!)
That's your cerebrum!
And Medicowesome (Not too sure about the second bit xD)
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Colles fracture mnemonic
Somatostatinoma mnemonic
S for somatostatin, S for 3 S's!
Sugar: Diabetes mellitus
Stones: Cholecystolithiasis
Steatorrhoea
That's all!
Sugar, spice and everything nice :)
-IkaN
Whipple's triad mnemonic
The mnemonic is, "wHIpple'S"
H for hypoglycaemia in fasting state.
I to remind you that it is seen in insulinomas.
S for sugar less than 45 mg % and for Symptoms relieved by Glucose.
Alternatively, you can remember "HIS Whip" if you know what I mean ;)
-IkaN
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Charcot's triad mnemonic
Pain
Fever
-IkaN
Exception to Courvoisier's law mnemonic
Hello!
Courvoisier's law states that in a patient with jaundice, if there is a palpable gallbladder, it is not due to stones.
Obviously, exception to the rule will be conditions with a stone and palpable gallbladder!
The mnemonic is, "DHE exception".
D: Double impacted stone - one in CBD and one in cystic duct, with mucocele of gallbladder.
H: Large stone in Hartmann's pouch.
E: Empyema gallbladder.
The rule ain't useful if the patient doesn't have a gallbladder (absence, previous cholecystectomy) or if the gallbladder is intrahepatic.
That's all!
'DHEm' rebellious conditions breaking rules xD
-IkaN
Tuberculosis spine mnemonic
Friday, November 14, 2014
Medical management of variceal bleeding mnemonic
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome mnemonic
I got this mnemonic online and I made a little illustration on it :)
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Lymphatic drainage of the breast
Errata:
02:01 Axillary artery, not vein
I talk and draw like I usually do. Not sped up due to lack of time for editing. Hope it helps!
Magnesium sulphate regimens for eclampsia and preeclampsia mnemonic
Watch it here: http://youtu.be/uKkxNi1VS5g
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Ghon's complex in primary tuberculosis mnemonic
-IkaN
Filariasis mnemonic
Hi everybody!
These are random mnemonics I use to remember certain points about filariasis. Not sure if it'll help everybody. But uploading anyway!
"Filariasis fills the blood at night."
To remember that Microfilaria can be demonstrated in peripheral smear only at night.
"Microfilaria fills microvessels (capillaries) of the lung"
And cause tropical pulmonary eosinophilia!
Manifestations of filariasis
Remember 3 L's:
Lymphatic filariasis (caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi)
Loiasis (caused by Loa loa)
Light (light, sight, blindness - river blindness caused by Onchocerca volvulus)
So complicated names!
Diethylcarbamazine dose mnemonic:
DEC, D-E-six, 6 mg/kg for 21 days.
That's all!
-IkaN
Scabies treatment mnemonic
Hello.
The mnemonic for this itchy disease is the word, "SCABIES" itself. I divided it into two parts, the scabicides and the extra drugs used for pruritus, keratolysis, etc. The mnemonic is the same for both.
Scabicides: "SCaBIes"
S for Sulphur ointment
C for Crotamiton
B for Benzyl benzoate
b flipped upside down looks like a p, for permethrin
I for Ivermectin
I also looks like a L, for Lindane
Extras: "SCAbies"
S for Salicylic acid
S for Salicylates
C for Calamine lotion
C for Corticosteroids
A for Antihistamines
Notes:
Use 5% permethrin.
L looks like 1, so 1% Lindane.
Ivermectin (200 micro g/kg) single oral dose. Patients with crusted Scabies may require two or more doses of ivermectin.
Salicylic acid is a keratolytic; allows good penetration of scabicides.
Antihistamines, salicylates, and calamine lotion relieve itching during treatment, and topical glucocorticoids are useful for the pruritus that lingers after effective treatment.
That's all!
-IkaN
Short acting bronchodilators and long acting bronchodilators mnemonic
Was studying bronchial asthma and COPD today :)
Salmeterol
Formoterol or Eformoterol
Arformoterol
Friday, November 7, 2014
Testicular tumors surgical management mnemonic
Because scrotal approach for biopsies could disseminate testicular tumors, Chevassu suggested inguinal exploration and occlusion of the testicular vessels before biopsy of suspicious lesions.
I use a pun to remember this - "Chew vessels" to prevent seeding: Chevassou.
Other facts you must remember are - Seminomas are radiosensitive. They respond to chemotherapy with cisplatin as well.
And that teratomas have frequent lymph node involvement.
That's all!
-IkaN
Remembering the autonomic innervation of the bladder
"PISS" is my memory aid for remembering, Parasympathetics make you Pee from S2 - S4 segments. (Two S's in piss, so S2)
So the opposite, sympathetic L1 and L2, allow urine to collect and are inhibitory to the detrusor muscle.
That's all!
-IkaN
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Treatment of organophosphorus poisoning mnemonic
Hey!
I focus on how to remember the doses of the medications in this post.
Atropine. aTWOpine. 2 mg IV every 5-10 minutes till full atropinisation occurs.
Pralidoxime is also known as 2-PAM. Two. So 20 mg/kg in 20 minutes is the loading dose. Half that, 10 mg/kg/hr is the maintenance.
Remember to remove the patient from further exposure and wash the skin, give gastric lavage.
Also catheterize the patient before atropine is given (viva concept).
For symptoms of muscarinic poisoning, the common mnemonics are "DUMBBELLS" and "Cholinergics make you leaky"
That's all!
-IkaN
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Leptospirosis and Weil's disease mnemonic
"LEPTOSPIRO "
Lymphadenopathy
Encephalitis (And meningitis)
Pain in abdomen
Transmitted through animal urine
Occipital headache
Suffusion (conjunctival)
Pericorneal reddening, Photophobia
Iridocyclitis
Retro orbital pain, Rash
O looks like a heart for bradycardia
Epidural anaesthesia mnemonic
Hello!
The mnemonic is, "EPIDURAL"
EP: Epidural catheter is Placed and anaesthetic is infused
I for Indwelling catheter for additional injections later
D for delay (A 15-30 min delay in onset is seen with epidural anaesthesia)
U for urinary retention, a complication of epidural anaesthesia (Another complication that you must remember is hypotension)
R for Repeated prolonged infusion that can be given with epidural anaesthesia
A for Analgesia (Epidural is used for labor analgesia, post op pain and cancer pain)
L for Lidocaine (The letter L has two lines, so two percent is the dose. Two also reminds me of Touhy needle, used for the anaesthesia)
Another commonly used anaesthetic is 0.5% Bupivacaine.
That's all!
*sings* I've become so numb
-IkaN
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Tocolytic agents mnemonic
Happy Tuesday everyone!
The mnemonic for tocolytic drugs is, "ABC MNO"
A: Atobican
B : Beta mimetics like ritodrine (return to dreams)
C : Calcium channel blockers like Nifedipine
C : Cyclooxygenase inhibitors like Indomethacin
M : Magnesium sulphate
N : NO donors like Glyceryl trinitrate
O : Oxytocin antagonists like Atociban
A and O repeat twice, I wrote them anyway because they give a good flow :)
That's all!
I was asked an MCQ on this concept in my prelims. They asked which of the following drugs is NOT a tocolytic and they put 4 drugs. So it's important to know ALL the tocolytic drugs.
-IkaN
Cullen's sign, Grey Turner's sign and Fox's sign seen in pancreatitis mnemonic
If you complete the C, it looks like an O; umbilicus looks like an O. So pancreatic enzymes seeping through the falciform ligament causing discoloration around the umbilicus is the Cullen's sign.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Hormones that have similar structure and thus clinical effects
ACTH and MSH:
In Addison's disease, increase in ACTH causes hyperpigmentation because it is similar to MSH.
HCG and TSH:
Patients with choriocarcinoma can present with hyperthyroidism. It's because HCG is similar to TSH.
Pitocin and pitressin:
The drug oxytocin can cause water retention because it is similar to vasopressin.
These are all I can think of for now, lemme know if you guys know any other hormones that are so similar that they are able to cause similar effects in our body.