Criteria

Question 1

What criteria is used to assess the severity of pneumonia?

Answer 1

CURB 65

Question 2

Describe CURB 65

Answer 2

Confusion, urea >7, RR >30, BP (65

Question 3

What criteria is used to stage bowel cancer?

Answer 3

TNM or Duke’s criteria

Question 4

What criteria is used to diagnose MS?

Answer 4

MacDonald criteria

Question 5

What criteria is used to assess the severity of pancreatitis?

Answer 5

Modified glasgow criteria

Question 6

What criteria is used to assess someone’s risk of CVD in 10 years?

Answer 6

QRISK2

Question 7

What criteria is used to distinguish a transudate from an exudate?

Answer 7

Light’s criteria

Question 8

What is the criteria for the diagnosis of Rheumatic fever?

Answer 8

modified Jone’s criteria

Question 9

What criteria is used to diagnose infective endocarditis?

Answer 9

Modified duke’s criteria (don’t confuse with duke’s staging)

Question 10

Criteria for AKI severity/staging? What does it measure?

Answer 10

KDIGO - serum creatinine + urine output

Question 11

Classification of renal cysts (and can determine whether something is likely to be renal cancer)

Answer 11

Bosniak classification

Question 12

What system scores the affect BPH has on someone’s quality of life?

Answer 12

IPSS (international prostate scoring system)

Question 13

what is the grading system called for prostate cancer?

Answer 13

Gleason grading

Question 14

Give 2 minor and 2 major criteria for the modified Duke’s criteria

Answer 14

minor: janeway lesions, fever >38, roth spots, osler’s nodes, splinter haemorrhages, predisposing factor (IVDU, prosthetic valve)
major: 2 positive blood cultures for an organism known to cause IE, ECHO evidence (new regurgitation, mass…)

Question 15

What scoring system measures the risk of someone developing a stroke following a TIA?

Answer 15

ABCD2 score (age >60, BP >140/90, Clinical features (unilateral weakness, speech disturbance), Duration of symptoms, DM)

Question 16

What scoring system determines someone’s risk of devloping stroke if they have AF?

Answer 16

CHA2DS2 VASC score

C (CCF), HTN, Age >75yo, DM, stroke/TIA, vascular disease, Age >65, sex (female)

Question 17

Diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of ALS?

Answer 17

El escorial criteria: LMN + UMN signs in 3 regions

Question 18

Score to assess upper GI bleeding?

Answer 18

Rockall score: Age, co-morbidities, shock, endoscopic signs, diagnosis

Question 19

criteria for the severity of acute pancreatitis?

Answer 19

Glasgow criteria (PANCREAS): PaO2, age >55, neutrophils, calcium, renal function (urea), enzymes, albumin, sugar

Question 20

Staging of Hodgkins lymphoma?

Answer 20

Ann Arbor