NBME 23 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) (NBME Answers)

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nbme23/Block 1/Question#48 (reveal difficulty score)
A 20-year-old man is brought to the emergency ...
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳
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chaosawaits that almost ruined me because I remembered all those fun levodopa parties my boys and I used to have. /s +

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sympathetikey FA says, "euphoria, disinhibition, hyperactivity, distorted sensory and time perception, bruxism. Lifethreatening effects include hypertension, tachycardia, hyperthermia, hyponatremia, serotonin syndrome." So I think they wanted you to see Sinus Tachy and jump for MDMA. Idk why Ketamine couldn't also potentially be correct though. +13

amorah I picked ketamine because it said no diaphoresis. But if you need to find a reason, I guess the half life of ketamine might rule it out. Remember from sketchy, ketamine is used for anaesthesia induction, so probably won't keep the HR and BP high for 8 hrs. In fact, its action is ~10-15 mins-ish iv. +13

yotsubato Because the NBME is full of fuckers. The guy is probably dehydrated so he cant sweat anymore? +22

fulminant_life you wouldnt see tachycardia with ketamine. It causes cardiovascular depression but honestly i saw " all-night dance party" picked the mdma answer and moved on lol +10

monkd Ketamine acts as a sympathomimetic but oh well. NBME hasn't caught on to ketamine as a drug of recreation :) +6

usmleuser007 Why not LSD? +1

d_holles @usmleuser007 LSD doesn't cause HTN and ↑ HR. +2

sbryant6 @fulminant_life FALSE. KETAMINE CAUSES CARDIOVASCULAR STIMULATION. +11

dashou19 Take a look at why the patient has pale and cold extremities. "Mechanistic clinical studies indicate that the MDMA-induced elevations in body temperature in humans partially depend on the MDMA-induced release of norepinephrine and involve enhanced metabolic heat generation and cutaneous vasoconstriction, resulting in impaired heat dissipation." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008716/ +4

drzed @sbryant6 you're both saying the same thing. Ketamine has a direct negative inotropic effect on the heart, but it is also a sympathomimetic. You are both correct. +1

paperbackwriter @drzed Can you please site that? As far as I understand ketamine has a sympathomimetic effect on the CV system --> increased chronotropy and BP. I also don't see how they're saying the same thing. One person said "stimulation" and the other said "depression" +1

nutmeg_liver People tend to drink a lot of water on MDMA. I just guessed the confusion was a result of hyponatremia (too much free water) but no idea if there's any data saying that people tend to become hyponatremic due to water over-consumption on MDMA lol. +2

cassdawg "Despite possessing a direct negative cardiac inotropic effect, ketamine causes dose dependent direct stimulation of the CNS that leads to increased sympathetic nervous system outflow. Consequently, ketamine produces cardiovascular effects that resemble sympathetic nervous system stimulation. Ketamine is associated with increases in systemic and pulmonary blood pressures, heart rate, cardiac output, cardiac work, and myocardial oxygen requirements."(https://www.openanesthesia.org/systemic_effects_of_ketamine/) +1

brise LSD does cause HTN and tachycardia according to uworld! @d_holles +1

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tyrionwill Yes, good point to remember. In the category of FA stimulants, 2 agents has sympathetic activity: 1)MDMA; 2)PCP +

jackie_chan Basically how I solved it, all the other drugs are downers +

jackie_chan Even tho ketamine has sympathomemetic effects, they would be widly tripping, they dont call it falling into a K-hole for nothing. +

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