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What items compromise the sterile field in the OR?

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  • Instrument table
  • Mayo table
  • Anterior drapes
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Can you grab the skin with DeBakey pickups? Why or why not?

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  • NO

- You must use pickups with teeth to grab the skin-better to cut the skin than crush it

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  • Constant dullness to percussion in the left flank/LUQ and resonance to percussion in the right flank
  • Seen with splenic rupture/hematoma
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Ballance’s sign

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  • Ecchymosis over the mastoid process

- Seen with basilar skull fractures

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Battle’s sign

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Battle’s sign

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  • Ecchymosis over the mastoid process

- Seen with basilar skull fractures

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Seen in patients with cardiac tamponade:

  • JVD
  • Muffled heart sounds
  • Decreased blood pressure
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Beck’s triad

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Beck’s triad

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Seen in patients with cardiac tamponade:

  • JVD
  • Muffled heart sounds
  • Decreased blood pressure
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Seen with fat emboli syndrome

  • Mental status change
  • Petechiae, often in the axilla/thorax
  • Dyspnea
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Bergman’s triad

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Right subscapular pain resulting from cholelithiasis

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Boas’ sign

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Boas’ sign

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Right subscapular pain resulting from cholelithiasis

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Carcinoid triad

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  • Flushing
  • Diarrhea
  • Right heart failure
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  • Flushing
  • Diarrhea
  • Right heart failure
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Carcinoid triad

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Charcot’s triad

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Seen with cholangitis:

  • Fever
  • Jaundice
  • RUQ pain
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Seen with cholangitis:

  • Fever
  • Jaundice
  • RUQ pain
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Charcot’s triad

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Chvostek’s sign

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Twitching of facial muscles when tapping the facial nerve; in patients with hypocalcemia

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Twitching of facial muscles when tapping the facial nerve; in patients with hypocalcemia

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Chvostek’s sign

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  • Bluish discoloration of the periumbilical area

- Due to retroperitoneal bleed

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Cullen’s sign

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Cushing’s triad

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Signs of increased ICP:

  • Bradycardia
  • Hypertension
  • Irregular respirations
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Signs of increased ICP:

  • Bradycardia
  • Hypertension
  • Irregular respirations
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Cushing’s triad

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Ecchymosis or discoloration of the flank with retroperitoneal bleed

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Grey Turner’s sign

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Calf pain on forced dorsiflexion of the foot in patients with DVT

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Homan’s sign

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Severe left shoulder pain in patients with splenic rupture

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Kehr’s sign

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  • Visible peristalsis of the ureter in response to sqeezing

- Used to identify the ureter in surgery

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Kelly’s sign

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Kelly’s sign

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  • Visible peristalsis of the ureter in response to sqeezing

- Used to identify the ureter in surgery

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Laplace's law
- Wall tension = Pressure x Radius | - Therefore, the colon perforates preferentially at the cecum because of the increase in radius
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Meckel's diverticulum rule of 2's
- 2% of the population - 2% of them will be symptomatic - Within 2 feet of the ileocecal valve
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Lower quadrant pain due to ovulation
Mittelschmerz
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Pheochromocytoma symptoms triad
-Palpitations -HA -Episodic diaphroesis ("PHE")
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Reynold's pentad
Seen with SUPPURATIVE cholangitis: - Fever - Jaundice - RUQ pain - Mental status changes - Shock/Sepsis
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Seen with SUPPURATIVE cholangitis: - Fever - Jaundice - RUQ pain - Mental status changes - Shock/Sepsis
Reynold's pentad
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RLQ pain with LLQ palpation
- Rosving's sign | - Seen with appendicitis
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Rosving's sign
- RLQ pain with LLQ palpation | - Seen with appendicitis
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Metastatic tumor to the umbilical lymph nodes
Sister Mary Joseph's node
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Metastatic tumor of the left supraclavicular node
Virchow's node
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Virchow's triad
Risk factors for thrombosis: - Venous stasis - Hypercoagulability - Abnormal endothelium/Endothelial injury
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Risk factors for thrombosis: - Venous stasis - Hypercoagulability - Abnormal endothelium/Endothelial injury
Virchow's triad
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- Carpal spasm after occlusion of the blood to the forearm with a BP cuff - Seen with hypocalcemia
Trousseau's sign
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Trousseau's sign
- Carpal spasm after occlusion of the blood to the forearm with a BP cuff - Seen with hypocalcemia
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Whipple's triad
Evidence for insulinoma: - Hypoglycemia < 50 - CNS and vasomotor symptoms - Relief of symptoms with glucose administration
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Evidence for insulinoma: - Hypoglycemia < 50 - CNS and vasomotor symptoms - Relief of symptoms with glucose administration
Whipple's triad
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MC indication for surgery with Crohn's disease
SBO
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MC type of breast cancer?
Infiltrating ductal
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MCC of pancreatitis?
EtOH
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MC bacteria in stool
Bacteroides fragilis
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MCC of SBO in adults in the US
Postop peritoneal adhesions
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MCC of SBO in children
Hernias
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MC site of GI carcinoids
Appendix
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MC abdominal x-ray finding with SBO?
Air-fluid levels
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MC electrolyte deficiency causing ileus
Hypokalemia
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MC site of sarcoma metastasis
Lungs
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MCC of large bowel obstruction
Cancer
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MC type of colonic volvulus
Sigmoid
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MCC of fever < 48 hours post-op?
Atelectasis
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MC abdominal organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma
Liver
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MC type of pneumonia in the ICU
Gram (-) bacteria
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MC hernia
Inguinal - right more than left
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MC cancer in females
Lung
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MC cancer in males
Prostate
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MCC of free peritoneal air
Perforated PUD
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MC symptom of gastric cancer
Weight loss
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MC site of hematogenous colon cancer metastasis
Liver

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