Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental:

  • emotional and behavioral factors
  • influence on person, family, and society
  • occupational and other environmental risk factors
  • gender and ethnic factors

Source: http://www.usmleworldwide.com/blog/?p=223

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Principles of therapeutics

Principles of therapeutics:

  • mechanisms of action and use of drugs for treatment of disorders of the hematopoietic system
    • blood and blood products
    • treatment of anemia, drugs stimulating erythrocyte production
    • drugs stimulating leukocyte production
    • anticoagulants, thrombolytic drugs
    • antiplatelet drugs
    • antimicrobials and antiparasitics
    • antineoplastic and immunosuppressive drugs in the clinical context of disease
  • other therapeutic modalities
Source: http://www.usmleworldwide.com/blog/?p=204

Friday, February 1, 2013

Abnormal processes

Abnormal processes:

  • infectious, inflammatory, and immunologic disorders
    • infections of the blood, reticuloendothelial system, and endothelial cells
    • autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases
    • anemia of chronic disease
    • non-immunologically mediated transfusion complications, transplant rejection
  • traumatic and mechanical injury
  • neoplastic disorders (including lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, dysproteinemias, amyloidosis)
  • metabolic and regulatory disorders, including acquired
    • nutritional anemias
    • cythemia
    • hemorrhagic and hemostatic disorders
    • bleeding secondary to platelet disorders and disorders of primary hemostasis
  • vascular and endothelial disorders
  • systemic disorders affecting the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular system
  • idiopathic disorders
  • degenerative disorders
  • drug-induced adverse effects on the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular systems
  • congenital and genetic disorders affecting the hematopoietic and lymphoreticular systems
Sources: http://www.usmleworldwide.com/blog/?p=201