Psychiatry · Episode 5 · 12:20
Substance Intoxication and Withdrawal: 5 USMLE Step 1 cases you must know
A free video lesson by Aryan. Each case starts as an exam vignette: name it in 5 seconds, then learn the mechanism, a memory hook, the must-knows and the trap.
Substance Intoxication and Withdrawal: 5 cases you must know
Opioid intoxication · Opioid withdrawal · Cocaine intoxication · Delirium tremens · PCP intoxication
Chapters
The 5 cases in this episode
- Opioid intoxication
- Opioid withdrawal
- Cocaine intoxication
- Delirium tremens
- PCP intoxication
Memory hooks
- Pinpoint, slow, sleepy
- Flu + yawning + goosebumps, not deadly
- Cocaine: big pupils, chest pain, no beta-blockers
- DTs: days 2–4, shaking, seeing things
- PCP: Perpendicular nystagmus, Psychosis, violence
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