S2 RR_2 Flashcards
(100 cards)
Fetal mortality?
Number of deaths from 20 weeks’ gestation to birth per 1000 total births
Perinatal mortality?
Number of deaths from 20 weeks’ gestation to one month of life per 1000 total births
Maternal mortality?
Number of deaths during pregnancy to 90 days postpartum per 100000 live births
True or false: Once patients sign a statement giving consent they must continue treatment.
False. Patients may change their minds at any time. Exceptions to the requirement of informed consent include emergency situations and patients without decision-making capacity
A 15-year-old pregnant girl requires hospitalization for preeclampsia. Should her parents be informed?
No. Parental consent is not necessary for the medical treatment of pregnant minors
A doctor refers a patient for an MRI at a facility he/she owns.
Conflict of interest
Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization can be undertaken for which three reasons?
The patient is a danger to self a danger to others or gravely disabled (unable to provide for basic needs)
True or false: Withdrawing life-sustaining care is ethically distinct from withholding sustaining care.
False. Withdrawing and withholding life are the same from an ethical standpoint
When can a physician refuse to continue treating a patient on the grounds of futility?
When there is no rationale for treatment maximal intervention is failing a given intervention has already failed and treatment will not achieve the goals of care
An eight-year-old child is in a serious accident. She requires emergent transfusion but her parents are not present.
Treat immediately. Consent is implied in emergency situations
Conditions in which confidentiality must be overridden.
Real threat of harm to third parties; suicidal intentions; certain contagious diseases; elder and child abuse
Involuntary commitment or isolation for medical treatment may be undertaken for what reason?
When treatment noncompliance represents a serious danger to public health (e.g. active TB)
A 10-year-old child presents in status epilepticus but her parents refuse treatment on religious grounds.
Treat because the disease represents an immediate threat to the child’s life. Then seek a court order
A son asks that his mother not be told about her recently discovered cancer.
A patient’s family cannot require that a doctor withhold information from the patient
Patient presents with sudden onset of severe diffuse abdominal pain. Exam reveals peritoneal signs and AXR reveals free air under the diaphragm. Management?
Emergent laparotomy to repair perforated viscus likely stomach
The most likely cause of acute lower GI bleed in patients > 40 years old.
Diverticulosis
Diagnostic modality used when ultrasound is equivocal for cholecystitis.
HIDA scan
Sentinel loop on AXR.
Acute pancreatitis
Risk factors for cholelithiasis.
Fat female fertile forty flatulent
Inspiratory arrest during palpation of the RUQ.
Murphy’s sign seen in acute cholecystitis
Identify key organisms causing diarrhea: Most common organism
Campylobacter
Identify key organisms causing diarrhea: Recent antibiotic use
Clostridium difficile
Identify key organisms causing diarrhea: Camping
Giardia
Identify key organisms causing diarrhea: Traveler’s diarrhea
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