NBME Step 2 CK Form 7 Methamphetamine (NBME Answers)

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Retired NBME Step 2 CK Form 7 Answers

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A 32-year-old man with major depressive ...
Methamphetamine 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳 / 📖
tags: toxicity

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Per 1st aid (step 1)

Euphoria, grandiosity, pupillary dilation, prolonged wakefulness and attention, hypertension, paranoia, fever. Skin excoriations with methamphetamine use. Severe: cardiac arrest, seizures. Treatment: benzodiazepines for agitation and seizures.

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Methamphetamine is associated with a sensation of insects crawling on the skin –> skin picking
Technical term is delusional parasitosis

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etherbunny ...or formication, which always makes me chuckle ;) +3

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