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  1. Surgeon has asked you do grade a pre-op patient on the ASA mortality scale. He has asthma which is well controlled. What ASA grading? 1,2,3,4,5.
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ASA Grades
• ASA 1: A normal healthy patient
o Healthy, non-smoking, minimal alcohol

ASA 2: A patient with mild systemic disease
o Smoking
o BMI 30
o Social alcohol drinker
o Pregnancy
o Well controlled DM/HTN
o Mild lung disease

ASA 3: A patient with severe systemic disease
o Poorly controlled DM/HTN
o COPD
o BMI 40
o EtOH dependence/abuse
o Implanted pacemaker
o Moderate reduction EF
o ESRD on dialysis
o MI, CVA >3mo ago

ASA 4: A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
o MI, CVA, TIA <3 mo ago
o Severe valve dysfunction
o Sepsis
o DIC
o ARD
o ESRD no dialysis

ASA 5: moribund
o Will not survive without operation
o Ruptured aneurysm
o Massive trauma
o Cranial bleed with mass effect
o Ischaemic bowel + cardiac/multi-system pathology

ASA 6:
o Declared brain dead

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  1. Patient on a LOAD of different drugs and experiences urinary retention. What is the drug causing it?
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Amitriptyline

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  1. Ring and little finger tingling - which nerve has been damaged? Ulnar nerve damage, median nerve damage
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Ulnar

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  1. Deltoid wasting, weakness of flexion and supination - Upper brachial plexus damage, Lower brachial plexus damage, Ulnar nerve damage, Median nerve damage
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Upper brachial plexus damage,

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  1. Man in office had episodes of smelling something funny and then went into a daze or a ‘trance like state’. No headache. Options: Migraine, cerebral vasculitis, idiopathic epilepsy
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idiopathic epilepsy

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  1. Crushing pain for an hour and collapsed, young guy.
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VF

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  1. He just started chemo for Burkitt’s, high K
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tumour lysis syndrome

o Hyperuricaemia
o Hyperphosphataemia
o Hyperkalaemia
o Hypocalcaemia, magnesaemia
o Acute renal failure
o Metabolic acidosis

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  1. She was on dialysis, missed a dialysis session due to diarrhoea and has now developed cramps. What electrolyte is causing this?
    Potassium, Sodium, Calcium
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Up to date says sodium?

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  1. Widened mediastinum. Erythema nodosum. High Ca.
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Sarcoidosis

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  1. Diabetic due for inguinal hernia surgery taking both gliclazide and metformin - HbA1c < 69mmmol/L. Omit gliclazide and keep metformin, start IV insulin infusion, omit metformin and keep gliclazide, omit both
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Omit gliclazide and keep metformin,

Metformin – take as normal if BD, if TDS, omit lunch dose
Sulphonylurea – take PM dose if BD, omit all if OD

Start VRIII if
• T1DM and missing >1 meal
• T1DM and no BG insulin
• Poor control HbA1c >69 mmol
• T2DM and missing >1 meal and BM >12
• Emergency surgery

If BM >12 mmol:
• T1DM: SC insulin e.g. novorapid 1U drops by 3 mmol
• T2DM: 0.1U/kg rapid insulin

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  1. Patient has swelling not separate to testis. Translluminates. Options: hydrocele, varicocele
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Hydrocele

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  1. 40 year old patient whacked by football 2 days ago, noticed swelling in left groin, diffuse swelling at upper pole of left testes, does not transluminate, right one normal. Options: epidiomo-orchitis, seminoma, teratoma, spermatocoele
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Seminoma
o Average age 40
o May secrete hCG and LDH

Non-seminoma (teratoma, yolk sac, choriocarcinoma)
o Age 20-30
o AFP, hCG elevated

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  1. Intermittent swelling in groin, now stays and is tender. Options: inguinal hernia, epididymal cyst
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Inguinal hernia

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  1. Desaturation on exertion, perihilar hazing
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PCP

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  1. Lateral epicondylitis question, pain on wrist extension. Options: Golfers elbow, tennis elbow.
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Tennis Elbow

(Medial is golfers)

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  1. Which drug causing hyperkalaemia
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??

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  1. Has lumbar pain. Popliteal and foot pulses missing.
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??

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  1. Man has footdrop after hip fracture. Which nerve was damaged? Options: common peroneal, sciatic, gluteal etc.
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Answer: Sciatic.

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  1. Loss of vision every now and then in right eye which resolves, and weakness in arm. Carotid artery stenosis
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? MI. (I think this is a TIA?)

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  1. Lateral medullary syndrome picture. Which artery? Posterior inferior cerebellar artery, posterior cerebral, inferior cerebral
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PICA or vertebral

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  1. A patient with PKD has a bleed. What is the most likely cause? Sub arachnoid haemorrhage, intercerebral bleed, extradural haematoma
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Sub arachnoid haemorrhage

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  1. A woman’s right arm keeps banging into door, can’t read whole page of a book i.e. hinting she has homonymous hemianopia-. Which artery is affected? MCA, PCA, ACA
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Isolated HH = PCA stroke

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  1. A man is getting worried that the gaps in his teeth are getting wider and his chin is becoming more prominent. What does he have?
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Acromegaly

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Woman with postural hypotension, which test would give you the diagnosis? Short synthacten, glucose tolerance, dex suppression

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Short synthacten

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  1. Patient with hyponatremia, has bronchogenic carcinoma. IV furosemide, vasopressin receptor antagonist
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Fluid restrict
Vaptans
Demeclocycline

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  1. Infective endocarditis. Which investigation would give a definitive diagnosis? Echo (TTE), Blood cultures, sputum culture
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Criteria: Duke’s
• 2 major
• 1 major + 3 minor
• 5 minor

Major
• Blood cultures: 2 cultures, or 3 >12h apart
• Echo: vegetation, abscess, dehiscence, new regurg (needs to be TOE not TTE so think cultures would be answer)

Minor:
• Fever: >38
• Risk factors: cardiac, IVDU
• Microbiological: not meeting major
• Vascular: splinters, Janeway lesions
• Immunological: GN, osler nodes, Roth spots

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  1. Dry eye and dry mouth. Bilateral parotid swelling. Which investigation? Anti-Ro, sialography, biopsy
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Definitive: biopsy
Anti-Ro and La: +ve in 90%

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  1. Ank spond. NSAIDs not working. What to give next? Prednisolone, Methotrexate, Infliximab, other monoclonal antibody
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Infliximab

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  1. He had paracetamol 1g TDS for pain. What to give next?
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Codeine phosphate

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  1. Man about to have hip replacement. Already been given TEDs, which other DVT prophylaxis should you give? Dibagatran, Enoxaparin (LMWH), Unfractionated heparin
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Enoxaparin (LMWH),

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  1. Suspected DVT, calf was not tender or swelling. He had pitting oedema up to his knee in one foot. Started amlodipine a month ago. D-dimer normal. What do you do? Reassure and discharge, IV frusemide, put on ace inhibitor
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put on ace inhibitor

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  1. Sats 90%, unwell (nauseous) for a week. ECG sinus tachy. No chest pain. Which Ix: CTPA, Echo, Coronary angiogram
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CTPA

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  1. Patient recently had an MI. Has already been started on ramipril, atorvastatin. What is another drug that should be added? ARB, Bisoprolol, hydralazine, digoxin
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Bisoprolol

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  1. Patient has increasing breathlessness on exertion, which resolves with GTN spray. It’s getting worse. What is an appropriate drug to start to relieve his symptoms? Isosorbide nitrate, Nicorandil
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Angina Mx
• Bb or CCB
• Increase dose to max
• Bb + CCB
• Nicorandil, ranolazine, long acting nitrate, ivabridine

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  1. Patient on beclametasone inhaler and salbutamol inhaler and now has pain on swallowing (i.e. he got oesophageal candidiasis). What advice do you give him? Advice to take beclometasone with spacer, switch beclametasone to fluticasone, swap beclametasone for salmetrol, advise to take his salbutamol and beclamethasone inhaler an hour apart,
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• Stop smoking
• Rinse mouth after using
• Advise spacer (reduces particles in mouth)

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  1. Alcoholic with long standing ascites, has been abstinent for 6 months. Increasing confusion. Is on regular thiamine and spironolactone. Has recently been started on oral furosemide. Has been feeling unwell and has some worsening of ascites. Na: low, BP low (can’t remember other figures). What is the most important IV therapy to start: furosemide, pabrinex, 500mL of Hartmann’s, antibiotics.
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Antibiotics
SBP: tazocin

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  1. 18 month old boy drinks paracetamol 2 hours ago, and mum has now brought him into A&E. What time is it best to measure his paracetamol levels? Measure paracetamol level in 2 hours, measure paracetamol level in 4 hours, immediately, in 24 hours
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Measure paracetamol level in 2 hours

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  1. 30 year old, night sweats, weight loss, pyrexia. Right iliac fossa pain. No change in abdo. Histology shows caseating granulomas. Tuberculosis, Crohn’s, UC, Coeliac
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TB

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  1. Patient with normal duodenal and jejunal biopsies. Has had a year of intermittent constipation and diarrhoea. What is the diagnosis? Coeliac disease, IBS, Crohn’s, UC
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IBS

Consider if for 6 mo:
• Abdo pain
• Bloating
• Change in bowels
Dx
• Abdo pain relieved by defecation / frequency / form AND 2/4:
o Altered passage (straining)
o Bloating
o Sx worse with eating
o Mucus
Ix
• FBC
• ESR/CRP
• Coeliac screen
Mx
• Dietary
• 1st line: antispasmodics, laxatives (not lactulose), loperamide
o 2nd line (constip): linaclotide (at least 12mo Sx)
• 2nd line pharm: TCA, then SSRI
• 3rd line: not resp 12 mo pharm Tx = CBT, hypno, psychological

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  1. What is the likely diagnosis when there is bronchial breathing? Pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion
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pneumonia

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  1. Patient 10 weeks pregnant has urinary frequency and urgency. What is the most appropriate antibiotic? Amoxicillin, nitrofurantoin, trimethoprim
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Nitrofurantoin

UTI
• 1st trimester: nitrofurantoin (not in third)
• 2nd trimester: nitro/trimethoprim
• Persistent symptoms: amoxicillin
• NB. always send for culture, repeat at 7 days for test of cure

NB: asymptomatic bacteriuria
• Needs two cultures to confirm before treatment
• 1st line: amoxicillin
• 2nd line: nitrofurantoin

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  1. 81y lady with 30y history of RA. Cannot have a bath for herself and finding increasing difficulty eating with knife and fork. What is the next line of management? Refer to rheum OP, care package three times a day, physio and home OT assessment, admit to hospital for comprehensive geriatric assess
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physio and home OT assessment

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  1. 40 year old fit and well patient with displaced intracapsular fracture. What is the most appropriate management? Hemiarthroplasty, cannulated screws, dynamic hip screw
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Cannulated Screws

• Undisplaced: always screw
• <55 years: try to screw
• >65 and displaced: arthroplasty
o Criteria for total: not cognitive impairment, walks with stick only, fit for anaesthesia

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  1. 70 year old patient has 2 cm irregular, mobile lump in upper outer quadrant of breast. What is the most likely diagnosis? DCIS, LCIS, invasive ductal carcinoma, invasive lobular carcinoma, medullary carcinoma
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invasive ductal carcinoma

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  1. COPD patient is on salmeterol and tiotropium, but his symptoms are not well controlled. FEV1 is 65%. What to do next? Switch to LAMA + ICS, Substitute LABA for LAMA, Add LAMA
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NICE guidelines
• SABA or SAMA
• SABA + ICS (asthmatic) OR LAMA + LABA
• ICS + LABA + LAMA
• Home nebs
• Theophylline
• Mucolytics
• LTOT

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  1. Patient has inguinal lymphadenopathy. Lymph node biopsy finds sheets of RAPIDLY GROWING moderately sized B cells. What is the diagnosis? Burkitt’s lymphoma, CLL, CML, AML, ALL
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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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  1. Patient has low platelets, low Hb, low WCC. Bone marrow biopsy shows dry tap with some odd shaped red cells.. (Edit if you remember). Positive JAK2 mutation. What is the diagnosis? Myelofibrosis, Essential thrombocythemia, Polycythaemia rubra vera, myelodysplastic syndrome
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Myelofibrosis

• Leukoerythroblastic film
• Tear drop poikilocytes
• Cytopenias
• Dry tap
• 50% Jak2 +ve
• Mx: supportive, blood products, splenectomy, BMT if younger

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  1. Patient has weight loss, haemoptysis (symptoms of lung cancer). What is the most appropriate initial investigation? CXR, CT thorax
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CXR

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  1. A patient with ascites, and widespread abdo tenderness. No guarding no peritonitis. Ascitic tap reveals 500mm3 neutrophils. What does he have? Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatocellular carcinoma
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SBP

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  1. A rheumatoid patient who is taking pred and methotrexate has a sudden onset lower back pain. What is the cause? Osteoporotic fracture, acute pancreatitis
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Osteoporotic fracture

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  1. Patient with BRCA1 mutation. She is worried that her kids (son + daughter) and sister might have it. Options: Sister and daughter have 50% chance of getting it and son has 25% chance, Kids and sister all have 25% chance of getting it, kids and sister have 50% chance of getting it, kids have 50% chance of getting it and sister has 25% chance
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kids and sister have 50% chance of getting it

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  1. Histopathological findings: summary was villous atrophy. Diagnosis? Coeliac, IBS, Crohn’s, UC
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Coeliac,

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  1. So there was one about a tongue deviating to the left. Which nerve is damaged? Left hypoglossal, left glosopharyngeal, left something else, Right hypoglossal, right glossopharyngeal
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Left hypoglossal

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  1. Old patient wishes to be cared for at home. He has no living family. He understands that he is refusing hospital treatment. What is the most appropriate way to fulfil his wishes? Fill out a DNAR form, advance request, advance request for refusal of treatment, appoint a LPA
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Fill out a DNAR form

Advance requests are for patients who will lose capacity

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  1. A woman is worried about her mother whose memory is getting worse and her personality is changing. Not much else info given. What is the cause? Alzheimers, frontotemporal, lewy body, parkinson’s
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Alzheimers

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  1. Patient has a sore throat a few weeks ago. Now has ascending limb paralysis. Loss of plantar reflexes. Options: GBS, Motor neurone disease…?
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GBS

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  1. Patient (with cancer maybe..) is having severe pain. Already on oral morphine solution. What is the most appropriate pain relief? Morphine subcutaneous infusion continuous, morphine subcut prn, fentanyl transdermal patch
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Morphine subcutaneous infusion continuous

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  1. COPD patient with high Hb: options were secondary polycythemia, renal failure, polycythemia rubra vera
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secondary polycythemia

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  1. In a randomised controlled trial, what is the most likely form of bias? Attrition, Recall, selection
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Attirition

60
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  1. Patient has a oesophageal carcinoma (didn’t they specify adenocarcinoma?) in the lower part of oesophagus. What is the most likely cause? Alcohol, smoking, barrett’s oesophagus, H Pylori
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barrett’s oesophagus

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  1. Old COPD patient already on salbutamol, tiotropium etc. Having increasing breathlessness at rest, and has carers come to her place twice a day. What is the most appropriate treatment? Home oxygen, Nebulised salbutamol,
A

??

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  1. Patient has progressive dysphagia to solid foods and weight loss. What is the diagnostic investigation? Barium swallow, Endoscopy
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Endoscopy

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  1. Angina… (edit if you remember). What is the best investigation? Coronary angiography, Perfusion scintigraphy
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• 64 slice CT angio: typical angina, ECG changes
o >70% stenosis
o >50% main stem
• Functional testing eg perfusion scinti, stress echo, stress MR: known CAD unsure if current disease cardiac
• Invasive angio: functional testing inconclusive

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  1. Abdominal pain 20 mins after meal. Weight loss. Options: mesenteric angina, gastric carcinoma
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mesenteric angina

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  1. Loin pain for a few months. Progressive worsening haematuria. No pain. Options: renal cancer, bladder cancer, ureteric colic
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renal cancer

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  1. Alcoholic with symmetrical clawed (basically can’t move fingers- dupotryen’s picture). What is the pathophysiology? thickened palmar fascia, thickened flexor tendon sheaths,
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thickened palmar fascia

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  1. Someone with absent breath sounds in upper right lobe?
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??

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  1. Which cells responsible for uptake of fat in fatty plaque formation- macrophages, neutrophils, platelets
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macrophages

69
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  1. Woman with SOB, ecg- sinus tachy, 35 year olds overall well, ascultation- pleural rub on right side- viral pericarditis, pulmonary emoblism, viral pleurisy
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PE

70
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  1. How is Hepatitis A spread- fecal oral route, blood products
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fecal oral

71
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  1. A guy who experiences night time coughing and then pleuritic pain or was SOB(?), no other symptoms
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sarcoid?

72
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  1. Eye that has industrial liquid splashed on his eye after workplace accident. Eye is now red and painful. What to do next? 0.9 NaCl saline wash out, neomycin drops, chloramphenicol drops
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• NaCl wash out

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  1. Red flag signs for someone with back pain- pain at night, pain while coughing, can’t get out of bed
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Pain at night must disturb sleep
Pain while coughing

74
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  1. Women with mobile, smooth breast lump
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fibroadenoma

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  1. Guy has sore throat, hard to swallow, tonsils were symmetrical and of a normal size., painful- quinsy, acute laryngitis, acute tonsillitis, mono infec?
A

??

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  1. Woman lost 6 kg, diplopia in every direction, can see sclera on downward gaze (?), difficulty with most movements of eyes (except medial direction i think)- what do you do- MRI head, CT, check thyroid function
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check thryoid function

77
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  1. A patient has 6 month smoking history (lung cancer picture) and hyponatremia- what hormone caused this?
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ADH

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  1. Woman has pneumonia- breathless, 90% on room air, low BP, tachycardic, symptoms of sepsis. Already given IV fluids- what do you do next? Give broad spectrum Abx, call ITU, non invasive ventilation,
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Give broad spectrum Abx

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  1. FAP q- 18 yr old guy with hundreds of polyps, dad and grandfather had colorectal cancer- what do you do- Total colectomy, panproctocolectomy + ileal anastomosis, panproctocolectomy + ileostomy
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panproctocolectomy + ileal anastomosis

IPAA is preferred option

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  1. Guy comes back from travelling a month ago- had headaches and one week ago started getting diarrhea/ fever? Long time since travel- amoebiasis, salmonella, shigella, giardia
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Salmonella typhi / amoeba?

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  1. Women getting pain after eating, fat, middle aged- now she has obstructive jaundice what was cause
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gallstones

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  1. Guy has had 3 black outs, most recent one while washing car- goes pale, LOC, arm jerks while on ground, wakes up and feels fine/fast recovery. ECG is normal. What is next most appropriate investigation?
    24 ECG, tilt table test, EEG, Echo
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24 ECG

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  1. Something about woman on predisilone and keeping track of risk of fractures?
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DEXA

84
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  1. Guy with heart failure gets pulmonary edema, you give him oxygen, sit him up, furosemide- what is appropriate to do next? Beta blocker and Ace inhibitor (ramipril) were both options
A

??

85
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  1. Guy gets posterior hip dislocation, what is he most at risk of- sciatic nerve injury, AVN necrosis
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sciatic nerve injury

femoral head osteonecrosis?

86
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  1. pain relieved by eating, worse at night
A

Another duodenal ulcer question

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  1. Chest pain worse on breathing- it sounded like rib fracture but no trauma so
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costochondritis

88
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  1. What in an ABG of a COPD person indicates a state of chronic respiratory acidosis?-
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high bicarbonate

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  1. A woman brings in her boyfriend who has starting getting hallucinations (?) long term alcoholic and just stopped alcohol 3 days ago. GP started him on acamprosate. What is causing symptoms? Delirium Tremens, Korsakoff, side effect of acamprosate, encephalopathy
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Delirium Tremens

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  1. A colonoscopy q that had skip lesions
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crohns

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  1. Has an eosinophilia, iron deficiency anaemia, and bloody diarrhoea. Which infection? Hookworm, shigella, salmonella
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hookworm

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