DIP Ep 651-USMLE Step 2/3 Rapid Review Series 136

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All right. Welcome. Uh, my name is, uh, Divine. Uh, this is episode six hundred and fifty-one of the Divine Intervention Podcast. And in today's podcast, we're gonna be continuing the rapid review series, uh, for, for step two and step three. Okay? So today we're gonna be continuing the rapid review series for step two and step three. Again, a lot of very important things, uh, to be discussed today. All right, so let's jump right into it. So, uh, what if they give you a question about, uh... And I'm gonna be making quite a number of, uh, kind of strange integrations today. So I'd keep this, keep this in mind, right? So I wanna focus on a lot of, uh, you know, y- y- you'll see what I mean as I go. So what if they give you a question about an old guy, right? And he has, like, very severe abdominal pain, right? He's a smoker, and they tell you that you feel a pulsatile lower abdominal mass, right? Uh, what should you be thinking about? Well, I really hope you're saying that, "Oh, Divine, this sounds a lot like a ruptured AAA," right? This sounds an awful lot like a ruptured AAA, right? So this person has a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, right? And remember, AAAs, um, typically, typically they're going to arise below the renal arteries, right? I think that's one of those, uh, kind of high-yield things you wanna make sure you know for your exams, right? They typically arise below the renal arteries. They typically arise below the renal arteries, right? And again, what's the biggest risk factor for an abdominal aortic aneurysm? Well, the biggest risk factor is going to be smoking, right? Smoking is the biggest risk factor for abdominal aortic aneurysm, right? Um, and one thing, uh, you'll notice on the USMLE exams,