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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 (2021) | Physician Assistant (PA) School Study Aid
Unhappy Triad
- Lateral Force on Knee with Planted Foot
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament
- Medial Collateral Ligament
- Medial Meniscus
- Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pain and Swelling of Knee
- Knee Instability
- MRI
- Surgery
4 mins
ACL Tear
- Mechanism
- Non-contact
- Popping
- Sudden Stop
- Change in Direction
- Unhappy Triad
- Sign
- Lachman Test
- Treatment
- Reconstruction if Severe
1 min
MCL Tear
- Mechanism
- Medial Knee Injury
- Unhappy Triad
- Football
- Skiing
- Sign
- Valgus Stress Test
- Treatment
- Conservative Management
54 secs
Meniscus Tear
- Fibrocartilage Semicircular Band
- Traumatic
- Unhappy Triad
- Degenerative
- Symptoms
- Clicking and Locking
- McMurray Test
- Pain on External Rotation
- Treatment
- Conservative Management
- Surgery
1 min
Prepatellar Bursitis
- Etiologies
- Repetitive Trauma on Flexed Knee
- "Housemaid's Knee"
- Symptoms
- Pain
- Erythema
- Complications
- Septic Bursitis
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Diagnosis
- Aspiration
- Management
- NSAIDs
- Antibiotics
2 mins
Baker's Cyst
- Pathophysiology
- Due To Enlargement of Bursa Between Gastrocnemius and Semimembranosus Muscles
- Often Related to Rheumatoid Arthritis or Osteoarthritis
- Clinical Manifestations
- Often Asymptomatic
- Mass or Swelling Behind Knee
- Acute Pain If Rupture
- Crescent Sign
- Diagnosis
- Ultrasound
- Management
- Treat Underlying Condition
- Arthrocentesis
- Glucocorticoid Injection
4 mins
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