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1
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OTTAWA should be positive pain at (ankle)

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Pain at lateral malleolus

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2
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Impaired proprioception predisposes an older person to

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Falls

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3
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Anaphylactic shock poor respiratory effort what do u do

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Assisted ventilation, adrenaline 1 in 1000, intubation, IV saline, chlorphenamine

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A hyperventilation patient may be trying to

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Decrease his or her PH level cause they are acidiotic

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5
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Renal failure in crush syndrome can be prevented by

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Aggressively infusing saline

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6
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Rule of nines an adult man with partial and full thickness burns to head, face and anterior chest has what percentage

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18

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7
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Hyperventilation of a brain injured patient…

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Shunts oxygen away from the brain and may result in decreased cerebral perfusion

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8
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The heart hypertrophies with age this is due to …

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A chronically increased after load caused by arthersclerotic blood vessels

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9
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Inability to move below nipple line indicated injury to which spinal root

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T4

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10
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Full recoil of chest in between compression enhances blood return to the heart by …

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Negative intrathoraic pressure

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11
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Common signs and symptoms of TB

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Haemoptysis
Weight loss
Persistent cough

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12
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Patients with heat stroke

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Have a core body temperature greater than 40

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13
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In drowning victims PEEP is used to

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Prevent atelectasis and force fluid from the alveoli

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14
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If nitrates and viagra (sildenafil) are administered together can cause

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Severe hypotension

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15
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Patient with delirium of experience…

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Hallucinations

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16
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Pin point pupils, respiratory depressions indicates

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Opioids e.g. morphine, cocodamol, heroin

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17
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Primary treatment for hypotension due to anaphylaxis

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Adrenaline

18
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Severe hydration commonly accompanied dka because of

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Hyperglycaemia induced osmotic diuresis and vomiting

19
Q

Involuntary rhythmic movement of the eye is called

A

Nystagmus

20
Q

Most immediate and significant complication with haemorrhagic stroke is

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Increased ICP

21
Q

OTTAWA knee rules cannot be used to exclude a patient over the age of

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55

22
Q

Pain from dissecting aortic aneurysm is

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Maximal from onset

23
Q

Frothy pink sputum suggest

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Left ventricular heart failure

24
Q

The oxygen dissociation curve can be altered by changes to

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pCO2
Blood pH
Temperature

25
Q

Cpap is used to treat patients by:

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Improving patency of the lower airway through the use of positive end expiratory pressure

26
Q

Palpable Virchows node is indicative of

A

Bowel malignancy

27
Q

Osbourne wave is

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Positive deflection of QRs

Usually in hypothermia

28
Q

Diffuse Axonal injury is

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Traumatic brain injury causing stretching, shearing, tearing of axons away from cell body

29
Q

Risk of TIA score used

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ABCD2 score

30
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How to work out CPP

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MAP- ICP

31
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Common signs and symptoms of pre eclampsia

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High blood pressure, oedema, headaches

32
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Compartment syndrome is

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When crush injury, there is great pressure on the fascial compartment leads to impaired sensory changes, muscle death

33
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Deep partial thickened burn

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Is subcutaneous and deeper involvement

34
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First step for treating heat cramps is

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Move to cooler area

35
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S1 heart sound is

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Closure of mitral and tricuspid valve

36
Q

Where in brain are the oculomotor and trochlear come from

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Midbrain

37
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What is the situation in which the heart is so severely damaged it can’t pump enough blood around the body

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Cardio genic shock

38
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QT interval

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0.36 - 0.44

39
Q

What is the caution for Ondasteron

A

Prolonged QT interval

40
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Mild hypothermia is

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32-35

41
Q

St elevation in anterior lead is which coronary artery occuluded

A

LAD

Left anterior descending

42
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How to assess for fraility

A

Prisma scale

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