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Methylergonovine
Methylprednisolone for ARDS - G.2. What is the adjunctive medical therapy for ARDS? for kidney transplantation
Metoprolol B.6. The surgery was postponed for 6 weeks. The patient presents for surgery again, currently on a regimen of metoprolol, aspirin, atorvastatin, captopril, hydrochlorothiazide, and potassium chloride. Their BP is 160/60 mm Hg and potassium 4.0 mEq/L. Would you premedicate this patient? for carotid tamponade, postoperative - D.2. How would you manage hypertension in the intensive care unit? for heart failure for hypertension in burn patients for myocardial ischemia prevention/reduction for post-CEA hypertension mechanism of action preoperative continuance of
Mexiletine, for complex regional pain syndrome
See Marfan syndrome (MFS) A.3. What is the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms and what genetic conditions predispose to their formation? A.4. What is the natural history and medical management of thoracic aneurysms? B.1. What are the indications and timing of surgical intervention for TAAs? B.2. Which patients are candidates for endovascular aortic repair, and what are the major advantages and disadvantages of this approach? See Marfan syndrome (MFS)
MG
MH
See Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Arrest (MICA) A.1. What are the preoperative predictors for perioperative major adverse cardiac events (MACE)? B.1. How should this patient be evaluated? B.4. How would you classify this patient's surgery-specific MACE risk? See Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Arrest (MICA)
Microcirculation, sickling of red blood cells in
Microdebriders, for laryngeal lesions A.5. What treatment options are available? C.6. What are some disadvantages of lasers compared to microdebriders?
Microdiscectomy
Microembolization
Micrognathia A.6. What is Pierre Robin syndrome? B.2. How would you categorize the difficult airway in children? B.3. What features of the difficult airway can be noted on physical examination?
Microtransducers, for ICP monitoring
Midazolam
See Maximal inspiratory flow (MIF) B.4. What are flow-volume loops? Draw flow-volume loops for a healthy subject and for patients with COPD, restrictive lung disease, fixed obstruction of the upper airway, variable extrathoracic obstruction, and variable intrathoracic obstruction. D.2. Explain the pathophysiology of ARDS. See Maximal inspiratory flow (MIF)
Migraine headaches, acupuncture for
MILD
Milrinone, for right-sided heart failure
Mineralocorticoids A.7. What does the adrenal cortex secrete? A.8. What are the metabolic actions of the glucocorticoids and the mineralocorticoids?
Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD)
Minimally invasive spinal decompression
See Laparoscopic surgery advantages and disadvantages of cardiac valve surgery See Laparoscopic surgery
Minimum effective analgesic concentration (MEAC)
MitraClip device
Mitralign device
Mitral regurgitation (MR)
Mitral stenosis (MS)
Mitral valve prolapse A.1. What are the major etiologies of AS, AI, mitral stenosis (MS), and MR? A.2. What are the major changes in the loading conditions of the LV that result from the four different lesions? Why do they occur? What changes result from them?
Mixed-action opioids