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You have a 22 year old female patient with a two year history of recurrent, unilateral, pulsating headaches with vomiting and photophobia. The headaches, which generally last 3 hours can be aborted by resting in a dark room. Her physical examination is unremarkable. This representation is most consistent with:

Thymectomy is usually recommended in early treatment of which disease?

A 70 year old patient presents with a 5 week history of recurrent headaches that awaken him during the night. The pain is severe, lasts about 1 hour, and he describes it as a “hot poker behind my left eye”. Additional symptoms include lacrimation and nasal discharge. His physical exam is within normal limits. The clinical presentation is most consistent with:

A patient has a partial thickness wound on the upper extremity caused by trauma. There is minimal drainage and no erythema in the periwound skin. The best management for this wound would include which of the following dressings?

Full thickness tissue loss in which slough (yellow, tan, gray, green or brown), eschar (tan, brown, or black), or both in the wound bed cover the base of the ulcer is called______

A patient has a partial thickness wound on the upper extremity caused by trauma. There is minimal drainage and no erythema in the periwound skin. The best management for this wound would include which of the following dressings?

An 18 year old college freshman is brought to the student health center with a chief complaint of a two day history of progressive headache and intermittent fever. On physical examination he had a positive Kernig and Brudzinski signs. The most likely diagnosis is:

Which assessment findings would you expect in a patient with Parkinson’s disease?

Mr. Depp is a 44 year old patient whom you are treating for bothersome symptoms of essential tremor that impact his quality of life. As the provider you would most likely prescribe which of the following pharmacologic therapy?

The nurse practitioner is evaluating an elderly patient’s tremor. Which assessment is characteristic of an essential tremor rather than a Parkinsonian tremor?