HY lecture notes: Notes here start out very family medicine-ish, but super HY. Don’t forget basic screening tests that they like to throw into the mix: Colonoscopy at age …

  HY lecture notes: Cardiotocography = colloquially known as fetal heart rate monitoring; cardiotocograph is a machine used to measure fetal heart rate + uterine contractions simultaneously. Accelerations = normal …

  HY lecture notes: Pseudocyesis –> belief that one is pregnant when she is not (psych). Random, but just be aware of the term. Annoying epidemiology stuff: With respect to …

  HY lecture notes: Hyperemesis gravidarum = excessive vomiting in early pregnancy leading to ketonuria. Vomiting in early pregnancy is normal, but at what point is it not? HG is diagnosed when …

  HY lecture notes: Labor in first trimester often presents as severe cramping/pelvic pain. Most abortions occur in first trimester and are due to chromosomal abnormalities. Threatened abortion –> closed …

  HY lecture notes: Young woman, high fever, foul-smelling discharge per vaginum, small laceration on the cervix, unwanted pregnancy –> septic abortion; laceration is from an attempt to self-terminate the …

  HY lecture notes: Uteroplacental insufficiency = placental under-perfusion –> caused by things like SLE (lupus anticoagulant), anti-phospholipid syndrome, smoking, and cocaine use. Leads to recurrent miscarriage in the setting …

  HY lecture notes: Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is a really HY diagnosis that contrasts with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS). TTN –> TERM neonate who was born via …

  HY lecture notes: If USMLE asks you how to decrease risk of type II diabetes mellitus the most – low-carbohydrate diet or low-calorie diet – what’s the answer? –> …