Medical terminology video song

This video above is a concert including lots of medical terms. It helps you to remember many terms. When you see this for the first time, it is better to pause on each term represented by a cartoon / clinical photo. You can revise the terms by seeing the video many time.

WPW Syndrome

Wolff-Pakinson-White Syndrome

is a

Wild Path Way (Wolf is a wild animal)

between

Atria and Ventricles.

Also Remember KENT's ART (Abnormal bundle is called Kent's. ART = Atrioventricular Re-entrant Tachycardia.)

EGG findings: Remember Dr. KENT wears SHORT Pants - ECG findings are 'Delta wave' and SHORT PR interval.

Symptom may be tachycardia, palpitation, syncope or may be asymptomatic- Remember you get palpitation on seeing a Wolf and your pulse goes up or you may faint; But if you are strong, you will be asymptomatic!

Body song video

The Body Song uses a kind of lecture form of text utilising medical terminology concerned with the horizon of bodily interiority. This treats the body as a kind of tube through which the nomenclature wanders, territorialising the body into zones of disembodied light (the Eye) and corporeal-but-sanitised filth (the digestive tract). The visuals present a kind of medical lecture in which the orator is eventually subsumed within and excreted from the interior of the corpus being illustrated.

Note: This was the 'blurb' from the "Liminal" interactive CD-ROM (2000). The video was made on a Mac in c.1997-8, using 3D animation and compositing, with footage shot in St. Petersburg, Russia. The music was composed by Glenn Rogers, performed by Alistair Foote, Penelope Reynolds and Samantha Podeu. Audio production by Alistair Dudfield. © Peter Morse 1997.

Websites to learn Emergency Radiology

Interactive sites to learn and remember radiology - Visit these sites below:

http://www.oncallradiology.com/

http://www.chestradiology.net/

Signs of Shock

Signs of SHOCK are SHOCK:
Sinus tachycardia
Hypotension
Oliguria
Cold and Clammy extremities
Kapillary refilling is slow (Read Capillary as Kapillary)

Types of Personality Disorders

Remember types of Personality disorders with mnemonic "BAD SHAPE":
Boderline
Antisocial
Dependent
Shizoid
Shizotypal
Histrionic
Avoidant
Paranoid
Passive - aggressive
Empathic disorder

VDRL : False Positive cases

VDRL is false positive in "Missed Positive VDRL"
Malaria
Pregnancy
Viral diseases - Hepatitis, IMN
Drugs
Rheumatic fever, Rheumatoid arthritis
Leprosy, Lupus

Orthopaedic investigations : Table

Memorising this table will help to differentiate the above orthopaedic conditions.

Renal physiology

This diagram is taken from the book "Clinical Physiology made Ridiculously simple". You can use it for Pharmacology dugs (mechanism of action) also.

Salmonella vs Shigella

• SalMonella is Motile unlike Shigella.
• Salmonella is motile like ANIMALS - This helps to remember that Salmonella has ANIMAL reservoir.
• Shigella is transmitted by the F's - Food, Fingers, Flies, Faeces.
• ShiGella has Greater virulence than Salmonella.

Weber's test

This picture will help you to remember Weber's test. (Well, that's my photo in the background :-) )

The defective ear is the one marked with a red 'X' and  the normal ear marked with green 'tick' mark. In Webers test, the tuning fork is held against the forhead in the place of 'W'. Weber's is lateralised to defective ear in conductive deafness and Sound ear in Sensorineural deafness. You can remember the picture using mnemonic 'X CoWS S'.

Clinical jokes

Before you read these, let me tell you - All these jokes actually happened!!

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Medical student taking history from an old village lady.
MS: Ma'm, what did you come with? ( He meant the symptoms that she had )
Patient: Dear boy, I came here with 15 rs and only a mat to sleep on......

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Medical student taking history in Orthopaedics ward from  a person with spinal cord injury following an accident: "Did any one else in your home, your father / mother / siblings meet with a similar accident at any point of time?"

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 MS in Gynec wards: Ma'm is there any H/O diseases like Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension or Twin pregnancy in your family?
Patient: Is twin pregnancy a disease?

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Anatomy practical exams; Examiner wants the student to take a bone and explain it's anatomy: 

Examiner: Take one (Looking at the bones over his table)

Student:  No sir (Looking shy)

Examiner: Why man? Take one, I say.....

The student took a glass of  tea over the table :-)

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Anatomy practical exams again. Examiner shows clay model of placental circulation and demands - Explain this!

Student (Looking rather perplexed): Tree with branches sir!

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Now, please add your jokes in the comments below.

Rinne's test : Confusion buster

Rinne's test is the worst confusion maker in ENT UG exams. The problem with this test is that normally Rinne's test is positive unlike other test. Rinne's test positive means Air conduction is better than Bone conduction.
To remember these use the following mnemonic:
NNN - Normally Rinne's test is Not Negative it's BACkwards test (Bone conduction better than Air Conduction)

Nerve supply of Laryngeal muscles

Remember "Brian LARa has enough world RECords, so he does not want more CRICket"
The fact to remember is " All muscles of LARynx are supplied by RECcurent laryngeal nerve except the CRICothyroid"

Note: Mr. SRAVS has demanded more ENT mnemonics through the shout box. We shall try to include more in the coming days.

Lathyrism and Epidemic dropsy

What are the chemicals responsible for side effects associated with Lathyrism and epidemic dropsy?
Remember LAB is an Emergency Service

• LAthyrism caused by eating Legumes causes toxic effects with BOAA (ß-N-oxalyl-amino-L-alanine)
• Epidemic dropsy  (due to intoxication with Argemone mexicana) has it's toxic effects due to Sanguinarine

Sign and symptom

sIgn is what I detect from the patient.
sYMptom is what hIM tells me.

Mnemonic to read chest xray

Remember this when you read a chest radiogram: SomeBody Pulled My Trouser Down while I was reading Chest Xray!
(Read the chest Xray in this order)
Soft tissue
Bones
Pleura, Pericardium, Pulmonary
Mediastinum
Thorax, Tubes and lines
Diaphragm

Meniere's disease

Symptoms of Meniere's disease can be remembered with the Ad of TVS scooty picture above. Note that the bike is FULL, occupied by two beauties with EAR rings. So see the ad, look into the ears of the babes ( remember that Meniere's disease affect the ears ) remember the symptoms of Meniere's disease with "TVS is FULL":
Tinnitus (Fluctuating, Uni/bilateral)
Vertigo (Episodic)
Sensorineural hearing loss (Fluctuating, progressive, Uni/bilateral)
FULLness inside ears

Which are the gram positive bacilli?

Before answering the question, do you know this Bollywood actress? Well, she is Lara Dutta. Now here's the mnemonic with some modification to this fact.....
"B" for Bollywood and also for Bacilli;
Will she Gram stain? Yes, because she doesnot have her clothes on :-)
So L. DATTA is Gram positive "B"..... Of course, we have made the Dutta to Datta and left out 3 letters of Lara. And L.DATTA wants NO Acne , as this will spoil her figure.
Remember that all Bacilli are Gram negative except L.DATTA wants NO Acne, i.e. the bacteria causing
Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes & also remember Lactobacillus sp.)
Diptheria (Corynebacterium diptheriae)
Actinomycosis (Actinomyces sp.)
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
Tetanus (Clostridium tetani and others in Clostridia sp.)
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis & cereus)
NOcardiosis (Nocardia sp.)
Acne (Propionibacterium acnes)