Question of the Day

Question: What is the effect of maternal cannabis use on newborn birth weight?

Question: Okadoic acid has been posited to be the putative toxin in which type of shellfish poisoning?

Question: What are so-called “marijuana concentrates”, common street names “710 (the word “OIL” flipped and spelled backwards), wax, ear wax, honey oil, budder, butane hash oil, butane honey oil (BHO), shatter, dabs (dabbing), black glass, and errl?

Question: Which drug has been shown to rapidly and safely reverse the anticoagulant effect of dabigatran (Pradaxa)?

Question:  Occupational exposure to the chemical carbon disulfide has been associated with a wide variety of adverse health effects including accelerated atherosclerosis in some workers. What phenomena have been posited as surrogate markers for the absorption of a medically important dose of carbon disulfide?

Question: Eculizumab (Soliris) is licensed in the United States for treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome; both are rare, life-threatening illnesses. An increased risk for which infectious disease is associated with the use of Eculizumab?

Question: Vitamin D intoxication is an uncommon problem for pediatric aged patients. What is the clinical presentation of children suffering from hypervitaminosis D?

Question: What is the so-called hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome and which plant alkaloids cause this potentially lethal problem?

Question:  Acute pancreatitis has been reported secondary to the sting of which arthropod?

Question: How might intra-operative carbon monoxide exposure occur during general endotracheal anesthesia?