AAFP Questions with accurate answers, 2022. Graded A+
A nontoxic afebrile 4 week old child appears with diffuse crackles and conjunctivitis and a prominent cough. On WBC there is prominent eosinophilia. Most likely
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AAFP Questions with accurate answers, 2022. Graded A+
A nontoxic afebrile 4 week old child appears with diffuse crackles and conjunctivitis and a prominent cough. On WBC there is prominent eosinophilia. Most likely etiological agent? - ✔✔Chlamydia pneumoniae (atypical pneumonia)
When do we use finesteride? - ✔✔Only if PSA is above 1.5ng/mL and when there is evidence of BPH
Recommended treatment for a mallet fracture? - ✔✔splinting in extension
Appropriate drugs to manage bipolarism - ✔✔Lithium, valproate, lamotrigine, and some antipsychotics (including quetiapine)
A young 2 year old presents with her arm pronated and flexed close to her body. She is resilient to examination of the area. What occurred and how do you fix it? - ✔✔Nursemaids elbow due to excessive traction and the annular ligament slipping superiorly between the humerus and radius
Treatment for primary dysmenorrhea? - ✔✔NSAIDs
Two most appropriate first steps to assess a thyroid nodule? - ✔✔ultrasound
TSH level
Which anti-epileptic should be titrated up slowly to avoid S-J syndrome? - ✔✔Lamotrogine
Three best sources of information for providing treatment - ✔✔systematic
reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
Flesh colored papules with an erythematous base that are located on the face and trunk of a 2 day old infant. Dx? - ✔✔erythema toxicum neonatorum
A 70-year-old male with widespread metastatic prostate cancer is being cared for through a local
hospice. Surgery, radiation, and hormonal therapy have failed to stop the cancer, and the goal
of his care is now symptom relief. Over the past few days he has been experiencing respiratory
distress. His oxygen saturation is 94% on room air and his lungs are clear to auscultation. His
respiratory rate is 16/min.
Best treatment? - ✔✔Morphine
Two causes of bloody diarrhea that are painless? - ✔✔Diverticular bleeding and angiodysplasia
A patient with persistent severe asthma may present with bruising, why? - ✔✔Inhaled corticosteroids may increase the risk of bruising in some patients
benign nocturnal limb pains of childhood are what? - ✔✔growing pains- cramping feelings in calves, arms and shins
Which of the following is not a first line anti-HTN therapy?
ACE inhibitors
B. Angiotensin receptor blockers
C. Calcium channedl blockers
D. β-Blockers
E. Thiazide-type diuretics - ✔✔Beta blockers
Why do we routinely check Na+ levels on patients taking SSRIs? - ✔✔worry about hyponatremia secondary to SIADH
Four common causes of obstructive lung disease? - ✔✔COPD
bronchiectasis
asthma
CF
A patient presenting with a pericardial rub and pain only relieved by leaning forward should be given what immediately? - ✔✔NSAIDs (colchicine too)--> first line for pericarditis
What viral respiratory infection is rarely associated with bacterial co-infection - ✔✔RSV
In a 3 year old with assumed community acquired pneumonia what is the drug of choice to treat? - ✔✔amoxicillin (older kids get macrolides)
nondisplaced midshaft clavicular fracture should be splinted how? - ✔✔sling
or
figure-of-eight dressing,
OSA in children 2 to 8 is due primarily to what? - ✔✔enlarged adenoids and tonsils
Anemia of CKD is normally treated first line how? - ✔✔oral ferous sulfate
dyspnea, a nondilated left
ventricle with a preserved ejection fraction all indicate what type of heart failure? - ✔✔diastolic
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) occurs most commonly during when? - ✔✔adolescent growth spurt with knee pain
Patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease should be started on a daily dose of either _________ or ________ - ✔✔aspirin or clopidogrel
This causes dull or sharp groin pain, which in
some patients radiates to the lateral hip, anterior thigh, or buttock with a positive FABER or FABIR test - ✔✔hip labral tear
If a patient has bacterial diarrhea that is causing non-bloody stool and no severe symptoms how do we treat? - ✔✔hydration but NO antibiotics
This vaccine may cause a febrile seizure in a 12 month year old due to fevers that may spike to 103 degrees - ✔✔MMR (measles component)
A positive valgus stress test of the elbow indicates what? - ✔✔ulnar collateral ligament injury
Cubital tunnel syndrome is a neuropathy of the ____________ caused by compression or traction as it passes
through the cubital tunnel of the medial elbow. - ✔✔ulnar nerve
Appropriate pharmacotherapy for someone going thru alcohol withdrawal? - ✔✔Chlordiazepoxide (want long lasting benzos)
Cows milk is not recommended for infants under the age of what? - ✔✔12 months
Only required screening in young women prior to starting birth control? - ✔✔BP check
First line treatment of acute MS exacerbation - ✔✔Oral or IV steroids
Patients often present with
agitation and confusion, tachycardia, and elevated blood pressure, as well as a dry mouth. Treatment? - ✔✔Bento like lorazepam or diazepam~ serotonin syndrome
What decreases the pain of a lidocaine injection? - ✔✔buffering with sodium bicarbonate
What should we do in an asplenic patient with fever? - ✔✔immediately give antibiotics
How do we give PPSV23 and PCV13 to an asplenic patient? - ✔✔8 weeks apart
What do we give to asplenci patients under 5 y/o? - ✔✔2 doses of penicillin daily
A 37-year-old graphic designer presents to your office with a history of several months of radial
wrist pain. She does not recall any specific trauma but notes that it hurts to hold a coffee cup.
Finkelstein's test is positive and a grind test is negative, and there is tenderness to palpation over
the radial tubercle.
Which one of the following would be most appropriate at this point? - ✔✔Rest and thumb spica wrist splint (she has de Quervain's tenosynovitis)
Someone with an elevated WBC who is acutely ill with cellulitis should be treated with what? - ✔✔Vanc
Patients with chronic illness, diabetes mellitus, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, chronic bronchopulmonary
dysplasia, cyanotic congenital heart disease, or cochlear implants should receive how many doses of pneumococcal vaccines? - ✔✔2
Appropriate workup for infertility? - ✔✔Check luteal progesterone
Hysterosalpingography after for patency
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines recommend that asymptomatic adults with
sustained blood pressure >135/80 mm Hg be screened for what? - ✔✔DMII
Leading cause of death in those with RA? Why? - ✔✔atherosclerotic heart disease (secondary to chronic inflammatory state)
Two classes of drugs to treat OCD? - ✔✔TCAs
SSRIs
Treatment for postherpetic neuralgia? - ✔✔lidocaine patches
A patient presents with a severe headache they have never had before that has lasted 3 hours. You order a non-contrast CT that is negative, next step? - ✔✔lumbar puncture to check for xanthochromia
A 62-year-old male comes to your office as a new patient. He has a past history of a myocardial
infarction and is currently in stage C heart failure according to the American Heart Association
classification. His ejection fraction is 30%.
Which one of the following medications that the patient is currently taking is potentially harmful
and should be discontinued if possible?
A. Diltiazem (Cardizem)
B. Lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril)
C. Carvedilol (Coreg)
D. Atorvastatin (Lipitor) - ✔✔A. Diltiazem
negative inotropic activity
First line therapy for a fecal impaction in a child? - ✔✔An oral osmotic agent such as polyethylene glycol 3350 (MiraLax)
When should a child with head lice return to class? - ✔✔immediately only transmitted by head to head contact
If a nonsmoker has blood tinged sputum what do we do? Smoker? - ✔✔Nonsmoker- Chest Xray
Smoker- Chest CT
Two main risk factors for esophageal adenocarcinoma? - ✔✔GERD
Obesity
Best medication to treat acute pylo? - ✔✔Cipro (fluorquinolones)
asymptomatic man from iowa who has a milliary pattern of BB sized calcifications on chest Xray? - ✔✔Histoplasmosis
Immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura is an acquired immune-mediated disorder defined as
isolated thrombocytopenia not found to have another cause. How do we treat it? - ✔✔Corticosteroids (then do a bone marrow biopsy to rule out a cancerous cause or find cause)
Drug of choice for treatment of pertussis? - ✔✔Azithromycin
Best initial screening for hereditary hemochromatosis? - ✔✔Ferritin and transferrin saturation
Terminally ill cancer patients who receive palliative chemotherapy are less likely to what? - ✔✔Die at home (palliative chemotherapy is not good, more vents and more CPR)
What do we do in the case of a diagnosed case of bacterial meningitis? - ✔✔Treatment and then prompt prophylaxis of family and close contacts
Foul smelling stool makes you think what? - ✔✔Giardia
Exudative process that causes pleural effusions? - ✔✔Pulmonary embolism (if LDH is above .67=exudative)
Why don't we give a hormonal releasing IUD to someone with severe cirrhosis? - ✔✔Increases the risk of hepatocellulalr carcinoma
Which is more successful a detox program or long term methadone/buprenorphine? - ✔✔Long term pharmacotherapy
The umbilical cord usually has ______ arteries ______ veins - ✔✔2
1
How do we treat trochanteric bursitis? - ✔✔Corticosteroid injection
What do we do in a patient with well controlled HTN and renal artery stenosis? - ✔✔continue monitoring their serum creatinine (CT or MRI if worsened and then stenting)
Treatment of choice for community acquired pneumonia? - ✔✔Azithromycin
A bite on the hand or that involves the lymphatics veins or arteries, what should be done? - ✔✔antibiotic prophylaxis
Why is Lisinopril first line for ADPCKD? - ✔✔B/c of its renal protective affects
Why don't we prescribe pseudophendrine or phenylephrine in the elderly? - ✔✔can interfere with BBs, raise BP, and cause urinary obstruction
Three things that reduce iron absorption? - ✔✔Calcium
coffee
tea
Two things that can falsely lower the A1C? - ✔✔hemolytic anemia and acute blood loss (you lose RBCs so you don't find glucose attached to them)
he volume of distribution of water-soluble compounds such as digoxin is decreased in older
patients, which means a __________ dose is required to reach a given target plasma concentration - ✔✔smaller
middle-aged patient with resistant hypertension and hypokalemia - ✔✔Aldosterone secreting mass (measure peripheral aldosterone and then CT)
The clinical triad of purpura, abdominal pain, and
arthritis is classic for what? How do we treat it? - ✔✔Henloch Schonlein Purpura
No treatment we give acetaminophen for relief of arthritic pain
Infants should roll from prone to supine by ____ months of age and supine to prone by ____ months of age - ✔✔4
6
changes of the oral cavity and lips
• polymorphous rash
• bilateral nonpurulent conjunctivitis
• changes in the extremities (erythema followed by desquamation)
• cervical lymphadenopathy
and fever for 4-5 days - ✔✔Kawasaki's disease (need an US to look for aneurysm)
First line therapy for morning N in pregnancy? - ✔✔Vitamin B6 is
recommended as first-line therapy
When can we not give scopolamine patch for pregnant morning sickness? - ✔✔first trimester (trunk and limb deformities)
Do we need to prophylax those with a pre-existing heart valve problem for dental procedures? - ✔✔No, not if they are stable only high risk candidates
Best treatment for moderate triglyceridemia? - ✔✔fenofibrate
Approximately 0.3% of patients taking __________ develop agranulocytosis, usually within the first 60
days of starting therapy. - ✔✔methimazole
Pulsatile tinnitus, unilateral tinnitus, or tinnitus associated with asymmetric hearing loss is more likely to be associated with a pathologic cause and thus needs what that bilateral non-bothersome tinnitus does not? - ✔✔Neuroimaging
is a syndrome marked
by motor restlessness. - ✔✔akathisia
A 45-year-old male is seen for a well-demarcated, nonpruritic rash in the right axilla. It is
fine-scaled with a cigarette-paper appearance. The rash has a coral-red fluorescence under a
Wood's light.
Dx? - ✔✔erythrasma
What post uterine atony agent should
in patients with asthma - ✔✔Carboprost
Treatment for acute parotitis? - ✔✔augmentin
Patient with asymptomatic aortic stenosis should be seen how often for an echo? - ✔✔Every 3-5 years
If a child gets sick and then has lymph nodes that remain swollen hot and red they have _________. How do we treat it? - ✔✔lymphadenitis
4 weeks of antibiotics and observation
Leading cause of human death worldwide? - ✔✔Ischemic heart disease
What cause of hyperthyroidism will cause an uptake of radioactive iodine? - ✔✔Graves
If the MAP of a patient is below 60 they meet criteria for septic shock, what is the first thing we do to raise BP? - ✔✔fluid resuscitation
How do we calculate MAP? - ✔✔[(2 x diastolic)+systolic] / 3
After an acute trauma what do we think of in leg pain? - ✔✔Acute compartment syndrome (order a tissue pressure study)
What testing is recommended prior to beginning pre-exospure prophylaxis for HIV with Truvada? - ✔✔creatinine clearance calculation
hepatitis B antibody testing
screening for sexually transmitted diseases pregnancy testing
HIV antibody testing
We treat this antibiotic with 60 days of oral fluorquinolones or doxycycline - ✔✔Anthrax
Every patient with croup should receive what? - ✔✔single dose of dexamethasone
What is recommended for women who are breast feeding the first few days after delivery? - ✔✔400 I/U/day of Vitamin D until baby is consuming 500 Ml of milk
difference between scar and keloid? - ✔✔Keloid will expand beyond the site of the wound
What should we monitor during testosterone? - ✔✔Erythrocytosis can occur so we need to monitor hematocrit
Most common cause of resistant HTN in adults - ✔✔OSA
Where do we place an injection in a patient with rotator cuff tendinitis? - ✔✔Subacromal space
When do we give an intra-articular injection? - ✔✔Severe OA
A skeletal survey is appropriate in a child 2 years of age or younger suspected of being what? - ✔✔physical abused
Who do we test for HIV? - ✔✔all patients aged 15-65 years old
If a patient has HTN after 37 weeks gestation what do we do? - ✔✔induce labor
Pathognomonic for narcolepsy? - ✔✔cataplexy- paralysis with laughing
What two medications do we normally give for narcolepsy? - ✔✔sodium oxybate to improve sleep
Methyphenidate or another stimulant to keep the person awake
Positive CCP indicates what disease? Sole therapy if you can only start one? - ✔✔Rheumatoid arthritis
Methotrexate
If the FVC is normal or decreased and the FEV1 is decreased, an FEV1/FVC ratio <0.7
means there is an __________ impairment - ✔✔obstructive
If the FVC is decreased and the FEV1 is normal or
decreased the ratio would be >0.7 an ___________ impairment is indicated - ✔✔restrictive
Screening needed for women 11 weeks to 16 weeks pregnant? - ✔✔UA for asymptomatic bacteruria
When do we allow patients to return to activity from a stress fracture? - ✔✔When they are symptom free and have a normal physical exam
Patient with hematospermia should have what workup? - ✔✔STIs
Prostate/PSA
Testicular exam
What medications can be used to treat irritable bowel syndrome? - ✔✔anticholinergics (amitriptyline) and SSRIs
Most effective therapy for meniscus tear? - ✔✔Physical therapy (meniscectomy is not shown to be as helpful)
Should we recommended antioxidant therapy? - ✔✔No, has proven to increase all cause mortality
A 42-year-old male has symptoms of hypogonadism. Which one of the following should be
ordered first? - ✔✔early morning serum testosterone
What medication is proven to lower the risk of pre term pre-ecclampsia? - ✔✔ASA
In a patient with asymptomatic gallstones what do we do? - ✔✔expectant management
What is the best method to stop primary monosymptomatic enuresis? - ✔✔bed alarms (wake up and urinate)
Patients with DM should receive what preventative therapy for cardiovascular protection? - ✔✔moderate intensity statin
Preferred narcotic in patients with end stage renal disease? - ✔✔fentanyl
_____________ is often preceded by minor trauma to the elbow followed by a nontender, boggy
mass over the olecranon - ✔✔ascetic olecranon bursitis (compression dressing is treatment of choice, don't aspirate due to risk of infection)
An ankle-brachial index (ABI) is considered normal between what two numbers? - ✔✔1-1.4
Values less than 1 indicate more severe peripheral artery disease
Values greater than 1.5 indicate incompressible arteries (can't use)
Only Ab shown to be effective in chemoprophylaxis of lyme disease? - ✔✔doxycycline
symptoms of hypoparathyroidism - ✔✔refractory heart failure
tetany
seizures
altered mental status
stridor.
__________ and _______ are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of
narrow-complex supraventricular tachycardias - ✔✔vagal maneuvers
adenosine
Pediatric umbilical hernias normally proceed how? - ✔✔they repair on their own after 3-5 years
Which one of the following medications is associated with a higher risk of death due to stroke
or sudden cardiac death in patients with dementia?
A. Diazepam (Valium)
B. Fluoxetine (Prozac)
C. Paroxetine (Paxil)
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