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1
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Severe Anorexia can cause 3 things:

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End organ damage
Bone Marrow Suppression
Thiamine deficiency

2
Q

what does Anorexia do to LFTs?

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ketosis

3
Q

what is sjogren’s syndrome?

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autoimmune which destroys exocrine glands: lacrimal and salivary mainly

4
Q

4 causes of seizures in ETOH?

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  1. hypoglycaemia
  2. Withdrawal
  3. electrolyte imbalance
  4. subdural/extradurals from Trauma
5
Q

How to know how to dose ETOH withdrawal medications? Which one?

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Usually diazepam

use ETOH withdrawal scales

6
Q

2 ways you get thrombocytopenia in ETOH

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  1. Portal hypertension from cirrhosis

2. myelosuppression

7
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7 systems that are affected by chronic ETOH

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  1. Liver
  2. Brain: Wernicke’s
    Korsakoff
    Ataxia
    Sensory neuropathy
  3. cardiomyopathy
  4. pancreatitis
  5. proximal myopathy
  6. psychosocial
  7. global ETOH dementia
8
Q

3 classic features of Parkinson’s?

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Bradykinesia/rigidity
Ataxia
Resting Tremor

9
Q

how to test for cogwheeling at wrist?

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hold wrist, move hand back and forth, increase extrapyramidal tone by getting them to raise their other arm

10
Q

how to test for bradykinesia?

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do piano finger test

11
Q

how to perform glabellar test?

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from behind so it’s less confronting