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Medical Mnemonics
HEMATOLOGY
DATs Right! - the oxygen dissociation curve shifts RIGHT whenever there is an INCREASE in any of the following: DPG, Acidity, Temperature (DAT)
NEUROANATOMY
- For the function of the temporal lobes, think of a helmet which covers the side of the head:
- HELM:
- H : hearing
- E : emotion
- L : learning
- M : memory
PSYCHIATRY
Here's one from one of the psychiatrists on how to remember the symptoms of depression. He said it was like writing a prescription for Energy Capsules.
SIG:ECAPS
- S - Sleep
- I - Interest
- G - Guilt
- : - (Colon can refer to bowel complaints as this is a common presentation of depression, but not official)
- E - Energy (decreased)
- C - Concentration (difficult, decreased)
- A - Appetite (decreased)
- S - Suicidal ideation
RENAL
- 1. HUS/TTP
- HUS/TTP is a CRAFTY syndrome:
- C : CNS symptoms
- R : Renal failure
- A : Anemia (microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, "MAHA")
- F : Fever
- T : Thrombocytopenia
- Y : no one knows "Y" it occurs
- 2. Normal anion gap acidosis
- There's the older mnemonic USED CAR:
- U : uterosigmoidostomy
- S : saline administration (in the face of renal dysfunction)
- E : endocrine (Addisons, spironolactone, triamterene, amiloride,
- primary hyperparathyroidism)
- D : diarrhea
- C : carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
- A : ammonium chloride
- R : renal tubular acidosis
- and a newer mnemonic RAGE:
- R : renal tubular acidosis, respiratory acidosis
- A : acetazolamide, ammonium chloride
- G : GI (diarrhea, enteroenteric fistula, ureterosigmoidostomy)
- E : endocrine (same as above endocrine list)
- 3. Increased anion gap acidosis
- The older mnemonic is MUDPIES:
- M : methanol
- U : uremia
- D : diabetes
- P : paraldehyde
- I : idiopathic (lactic acidosis)
- E : ethylene glycol
- S : salicylates
- and a newer one called DULSI:
- D : diabetic ketoacidosis
- U : uremia
- L : lactic acidosis
- S : salicylate poisoning
- I : intoxicants (methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol)
MISCELLANEOUS
Clubbing (by Doog)
- C : cardiac (R -> L shunt)
- L : lung (tumor, fibrosis)
- U : ulcerative colitis (also Crohn's disease less commonly)
- B : bronchiectasis
- B : benign mesothelioma
- I : inherited; idiopathic; IBD
- N : neurogenic tumors
- G : GI (cirrhosis, crohn's, UC)
also, Hyperplastic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy, which didn't fit in the mnemonic!
