Signs of a heart attack: "PULSE"
Persistent chest pains
Upset stomach
Lightheadedness
Shortness of breath
Excessive sweating
Hand bones:
"She Looks Too Pretty; Try To Catch Her": Scaphoid Lunate Triquetrium Pisiform TrapeziumTrapezoid Capate Hamate
Branches of the iliac artery, one of the big-uns:
What Bill admitted to Hilary: "I Milked Our Insatiable Intern's Udders Under the Desk": Inferior gluteal Middle rectal Obturator Inferior vesical artery Internal pudendal artery Umbilical U/D=Uterine artery (female)/ Deferential artery (male)
Nerves tested when you check reflexes:
One, two-- buckle my shoe. Three, four-- kick the door. Five, six-- pick up sticks. Seven, eight-- shut the gate. (S1,2 = ankle jerk L3,4 = knee jerk C5,6 = biceps and brachioradialis C7,8 = triceps)
Some other funny mnemonics that I won't include explanations for:
Management of severe asthma (pardon the French!): "O SH!T"
Causes of acute pancreatitis: "GET SMASH'D"
Takayasu's Disease (pulseless disease): when you have Takayasu's, I can't Taka-ya-pulse
Branches of the Axillary Artery: "Screw the lawyer, save a patient"
Cranial bones: "Frat parties occasionally teach spam etiquette"
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