Acute cholecystitis predominantly occurs as a complication of gallstone disease and typically develops in patients with a history of symptomatic gallstones. Acute cholecystitis refers to a syndrome of right …
Acute Cardiac Tamponade – Beck’s Triad Mnemonic: In cardiac tamponade, the primary abnormality is compression of all cardiac chambers due to increased pericardial pressure. The pericardium has some degree …
Altered Mental Status Mnemonic Differential Diagnosis: Altered mental status is a common chief complaint among older emergency department patients. Despite the frequency of this complaint, the term “altered mental …
Hematuria Differential Diagnosis: hematuria is a medical term for blood in the urine. There are two types of blood in the urine exist. It may be grossly visible (macroscopic) …
STD/HIV Counseling Mnemonic: Having trouble remembering all the important questions to ask during your patient encounter? Then try this HIV / STD Counseling Mnemonic for USMLE Step 2 CS. …
Complications of Myocardial Infarction: The first step in the management of the patient with an acute myocardial infarction is prompt recognition, since the beneficial effects of therapy with re-perfusion …
Cellular Respiration – Electron Transport Chain Cellular respiration is the set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from …
Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the medical term for an event commonly known as a heart attack. MI occurs when blood stops flowing properly to …
Differential Diagnosis for Loss of Consciousness: Loss of Consciousness (LOC) is one of the important conditions that is tested on USMLE step 2 CS, since it is very common …
