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👨⚕️ Doctor | Saving lives ❤️🩹 , spreading knowledge 💡| Physician by day🩺, educator always 📚| ✍️ For educational purposes only — not medical advice🚫
Joined May 2021
Rovsing's Sign
@doctors_squad ✅ Answer: B) Rovsing’s sign Explanation: When pressure is applied to the left lower quadrant (LLQ) → pain is felt in the right lower quadrant (RLQ) 👉 Rovsing’s sign Indicates peritoneal irritation due to acute appendicitis
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@nervemed ✅Mallet finger = Extensor tendon rupture at DIP 🦴 Cause: Sudden forced flexion (ball injury 🎾) 🔬Clinical: Drooping fingertip, inability to actively extend DIP 👆 💊Rx: Continuous DIP extension splint 6–8 wks 🩹; surgery if large avulsion/volar subluxation
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@docxusofficial ✅Mount Fuji Sign 👉 Indicates Tension pneumocephalus 💻 CT: Air under pressure separates frontal lobes → Mount Fuji appearance ⚠️ Seen after head trauma / neurosurgery / skull fracture 😖 Causes mass effect, headache, altered sensorium 🚨 Tx: Needle or burr-hole decompression
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@medcrux ✅Answer: B) Scrub Typhus Explanation: 🌾 Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by chigger (mite) bites. Fever, headache, myalgia Painless black eschar at bite site (pathognomonic) Tender lymphadenopathy 💊 Treatment: 👉 Doxycycline (drug of choice)
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Mnemonic For krebs cycle
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@MoarSahitoPTI 💉 Vancomycin Infusion Reaction (Red Man Syndrome) — 👉Cause: Rapid IV infusion of vancomycin → histamine releasePrevention: 💡Infuse slowly (≥ 1 hour per gram) 💊Premedicate with antihistamines (diphenhydramine) if needed
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Peripheral signs of AR
@drkeithsiau ✅Quincke’s sign 💅🔄 → Nailbed pulsation 📌📌 Corrigan’s pulse ✋⬆️⬇️ → “Water hammer” pulse in radial artery De Musset’s sign 🤯🌀 → Head bobbing with heartbeat Traube’s sign 🦵🔊 → “Pistol shot” sound over femoral artery Müller’s sign 👄🔄 → Uvular pulsation
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@Doctors__squad Itai-Itai disease 😣🦴💔 🇯🇵 First described in Japan (“itai-itai” = “ouch-ouch” disease) Cause: ☠️ Chronic cadmium poisoning (contaminated rice/water) Features: 🦴 Severe bone pain / osteomalacia 🚫 Renal dysfunction ❌ Fractures, wasting
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@docxusofficial ✅ ACE inhibitor–induced angioedema ✅Most common drug class: 💊 ACE inhibitors ⛔ Swelling 🧏♂️ lips/tongue → airway risk ⚠️ 💉 Stop drug → usually resolves 🕊️
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An emergency treatment algorithm for convulsive status epilepticus. https://t.co/BX3aLuIwsa
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@IhabFathiSulima ✅Tinea versicolor = Superficial Malassezia infection → hypo/hyperpigmented scaly patches on trunk/neck, 🔬KOH: spaghetti & meatballs, 💊Treat with topical/oral antifungals ✅
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