USMLE STEP 2 HIGH-YIELD STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS UPDATE 2024-2025, EXAMS OF
NURSING
What's the difference b/t PTSD and acute stress disorder?
Correct Answer Both cause pt to persistently re- experience
event.
Acute stress disorder lasts less than 1 month
Time line of schizophrenia vs schizophreniform Correct Answer
Schizophrenia: >6 months
Schizophreniform: >1 month but <6 months
What anti-depressant is also approved for quitting smoking?
Correct Answer Bupropion
1st line drug for social phobia? Correct Answer SSRI
Adjustment disorder
Timeline?
Define?
Rx? Correct Answer - Develop w/in 3 months of stressor, lasts
under 6 months
- Emotional/behavioral symptoms beyond what is expected of
stressed event.
- Cognitive or psychodynamic psychotherapy
Anterior cord syndrome
Ax w/ what type of fracture?
MOA?
PE?
Rx? Correct Answer Fracture: Ax w/ burst fracture of a vertebrae
MOA: Trauma from a fall
,PE: Loss of motor function below level of lesion + pain and
temperature loss. Proprioception remains intact.
Rx: ABCs -->High-dose corticosteroid --> CT + MRI imaging
Central cord syndrome
PE?
MOA Correct Answer Elderly patient
Burning pain and paralysis in upper limbs.
Lower limbs fine.
MOA: Forced hyperextension type injury to neck
Fracture of mid-shaft of humerus.
MC nerve effected? Correct Answer Radial nerve
PE: popping sound and severe pain in knee.
Swelling occurs hours later
Dx?
Tender?
Clinical test? Correct Answer Medial meniscus tear
Tender on palpation medial side
McMurray's (+)
Leg Calves Perthes
Define?
Patient subtype?
Clinical exam findings?
Imaging? Correct Answer Avascular necrosis of the femoral head
4-10 yo
Limitation of internal rotation and abduction at hip joint
MRI or bone scan will show pathology earlier than XR
,At what rib level is a gunshot wound considered to involve the
abdomen?
After ABCs, BIT? Correct Answer Below 4th intercostal space
(below nipple)
Exploratory laparotomy
**Stab wound or other blunt trauma you do FAST, but not Sp or
Sn to do in gunshot wound
Reaction to cytokines stored in blood.
What blood transfusion reaction?
How to prevent? Correct Answer Febrile non-hemolytic reactions
(MCC of bad blood transfusion)
Leukoreduced blood products + washing of RBCs
Reaction to blood transfusion w/in minutes.
What type of blood transfusion rxn? Correct Answer IgA
deficiency
Motor
Femoral:
Tibial:
Obturator:
Common peroneal / Fibular Correct Answer Femoral: Knee
extension, hip flexion
Tibial: Flexion of knee and flexion of foot
Obturator: Adduction of thigh
, Common peroneal: Anterior and lateral leg
Sensory
Femoral:
Tibial:
Obturator:
Common peroneal / Fibular Correct Answer Femoral: anterior
thigh, medial leg
Tibial: leg (except medial) and plantar foot
Obturator: medial thigh
Common peroneal: anterolateral leg and dorsum of foot
Antibiotics for pregnancy Correct Answer Amoxicillin,
nitrofurantoin, oral cephalosporin
Viral meningitis
MCC?
Rx? Correct Answer Enteroviruses (echovirus and coxsackie)
Mucormycosis
Ax w/ what disease?
MCC?
Rx? Correct Answer DM
The Fungus Rhizopus
Surgical debridement + IV amphotericin B
Nosocomial pneumonia in an intubated patient
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