COMMONLY USED MEDICAL

MNEMONICS

LAYERS OF SCALP:

SKIN-CONNECTIVE TISSUE-APONEUROSIS-LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE-

PERICRANIUM

TRACHEA BRANCHES AT THE LEVEL OF T4 AND ABDOMINAL  AORTA BRANCHES AT THE LEVEL OF L4

STRUCTURES PASSING FROM THORAX THROUGH DIAPHRAGM:

T8: VENA CAVA (8 CHARACTERS)T10:OESOPHAGUS(10 CHARACTERS)           T12:AORTA(AORTIC

HIATUS=12 CHARACTERS)

 LINGULA IS IN LEFT UPPER LOBE IN LUNGS.

STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS IS TREATED BY ABNORMAL CAPS- ASPIRIN, BETA

BLOCKERS, NITRATES, CALCIUM CHANNEL BOLCKERS, POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME HAPPENS IN USA-IT IS

A SYNDROME AND INCLUDES UNSTABLE

ANGINA,ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION  BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE EAT (DIAGNOSIS OF ACS- ECG, ABC AND TARGET HISTORY/EXAMINATION) TOO

MUCH FAST FOOD

ASYSTOLE CAUSES:HAD 3 HYPOS- HYPERKALAEMIA

ACIDOSIS DRUGS HYPOXIA HYPOTHERMIA HYPOKALAEMIA

LEG ULCER DIFFERENTIAL IS VAIN PAIN:

-VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY-ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY

-INFECTION-NEUROPATHIC

-PRESSURE SORES-ARTHRITIS

-INJURY-NEOPLASM

COMPLICATIONS OF MI ARE ABCDE:ARRHYTHMIA/ANEURYSM, BRADYCARDIA, CARDIAC

FAILURE/TAMPONADE, DRESSLERS/DEATH, EMBOLISM

FEATURES OF PONTINE HAEMORRHAGE:3P

PARALYSISPINPOINT PUPILS

PYREXIA

UNPAIRED BONES IN BODY ARE SOFE:SPHENOIDOCCIPITALFRONTALETHMOID

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION IS F:FAT

FETUS FLATUS FAECES FLUID

FLIPPING GREAT TUMOUR

CAUSES OF KETOACIDOSIS: SAD

STARVATIONALCOHOL

DIABETES MELLITUS

CAUSES OF SIADH: SURGERY

INTRACRANIALALVEOLAR

DRUGSHORMONES

IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS SIGNS:C

CLUBBING COUGH

CYANOSISCRACKLES

TREATMENT:CCORTICOSTEROIDS