sweetgirl → Physical Signs in Medicine : Nails: Hippocrates, Clubbing is a very important sign. It tells something about the patient and a doctor should not consider any information about the patient as irrelevant. You can compare clubbing to fever and cough. Just because fever/cough is a symptom i... moreHippocrates, Clubbing is a very important sign. It tells something about the patient and a doctor should not consider any information about the patient as irrelevant. You can compare clubbing to fever and cough. Just because fever/cough is a symptom is several unrelated diseases, you would not say, fever is irrelevant. Presence of clubbing in a patient might make you reconsider your initial diagnosis or add further evidence to your diagnosis. It can help in narrowing down the differential diagnosis and help you decide what sort of investigations to do. less
March 8, 2008
sweetgirl → Disease Antakshri: Sjogren's syndrome - an autoimmune disease that causes dry mouth and dry eyes due to the destruction of the exocrine glands. Associated with Rheumatoid arthritis and commonly affects women
February 27, 2008
sweetgirl → Disease Antakshri: Sturge-Weber syndrome is a congenital neurocutaneous disorder. Characteritics include leptomeningeal angiomas, port-wine stain and involvement of opthalmic and maxillary distributions of the trigeminal nerve
February 25, 2008
sweetgirl → Disease Antakshri: I think the last word is 'e'. Eaton-Lambert Myasthenic Syndrome - a autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction. Sometimes associated with lung carcinoma and other tumors.
sweetgirl → USMLE: hey, I have a question. I am interested in emergency medicine. Can I do it directly or should I do internal medicine before emergency medicine
sweetgirl → Ketonuria - Knowledge Game: when a diabetic patient's treatment plan is changed from insulin to oral hypoglycemic drugs, the urine levels of ketones should be monitored
February 7, 2008
sweetgirl → Action Potential - Knowledge Game: A local membrane depolarization caused by an excitatory stimulus causes some voltage-gated sodium channels in the neuron cell surface membrane to open, causing net inward movement of sodium ions through the channels along their electrochemical gradient
February 7, 2008
sweetgirl → Cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR): CPR is generally continued, usually in the presence of advanced life support, until the patient regains a heart beat (called "return of spontaneous circulation" or "ROSC") or is declared dead.
This is a game to recall facts about a particular topic (Leptospirosis). Post the facts about the topic. Restrict to one fact per post. Your new fact should not have been posted earlier. You can also correct previous posts if they are wrong, by copy-pasting it and indicating why its wrong......by manually typing the facts with your fingers, you will remember longer...learning is fun
This is a game to recall facts about a particular topic (Snake Bite). Post the facts about the topic. Restrict to one fact per post. Your new fact should not have been posted earlier. You can also correct previous posts if they are wrong, by copy-pasting it and indicating why its wrong......by manually typing the facts with your fingers, you will remember longer...learning is fun
This is a game to recall facts about a particular topic (Pathology of Pneumonia). Post the facts about the topic. Restrict to one fact per post. Your new fact should not have been posted earlier. You can also correct previous posts if they are wrong, by copy-pasting it and indicating why its wrong......by manually typing the facts with your fingers, you will remember longer...learning is fun
This is a game to recall facts about a particular topic (OPC poisoning). Post the facts about the topic. Restrict to one fact per post. Your new fact should not have been posted earlier. You can also correct previous posts if they are wrong, by copy-pasting it and indicating why its wrong......by manually typing the facts with your fingers, you will remember longer...learning is fun
Just type the name of the disease starting with the last letter of the previous disease. Do not type in the name of disease previously posted. Breifly give a description of the disease if possible