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What is the gold standard investigation for bacterial STIs?

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Culture from urethral/rectal smear

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What is the gold standard investigation for TB?

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3 Sputum Samples
Ziehl-Neelson Stain
Lowenstein-Jensen Medium

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What is the gold standard diagnostic test for Acromegaly?

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OGTT

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What is the gold standard investigation for Coeliac?

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Upper GI endoscopy and distal duodenal biopsy

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5
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What is the gold standard investigation for food/drug allergy?

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Double-Blind Oral Challenge

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6
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What is the gold standard investigation for breast cancer?

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Histopathology

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What is the first line treatment for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia?

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Ciprofloxacin + Vancomycin

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What is the treatment for severe HAP?

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Tazocin + Vancomycin

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9
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What is the treatment for aspiration pneumonia?

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Tazocin + Metronidazole

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10
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What is the treatment for CURB 0/1 CAP?

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Amoxicillin

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11
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What is the treatment for CURB 2 CAP?

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Amoxicllin

Clarithromycin

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12
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What is the treatment for CURB 3-5 CAP?

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Co-Amoxiclav

Clarithromycin

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13
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What is the first line management for Minimal Change disease?

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Steroids

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14
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What is the second line management for Minimal Change Disease?

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Cyclosporin

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15
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What is the first line agent for CMV?

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Ganciclovir

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16
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How is EBV managed?

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Supportive

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17
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How is VZV managed?

A

Aciclovir

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18
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How is HSV managed?

A

Aciclovir

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19
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What is the first line management for myeloma?

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Bortezomib

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20
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How is Salmonella treated?

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Ceftriaxone

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21
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How is Campylobacter treated?

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Erythromycin/Ciprofloxacillin

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22
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How is Listeria treated?

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Ampicillin

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23
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How are Entamoeba histolytica/Giardia lamblia treated?

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Metronidazole

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24
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How is Cryptosporidium Parvum managed?

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Paromomycin

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25
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When would you consider transfusing red blood cells?

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<70 if asymptomatic

<80 if symptomatic

26
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How is Dengue Fever managed?

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Supportive

27
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How is DKA managed?

A

A to E
0.9& Saline
Fixed rate IV insulin after fluids
Monitor Glucose & K+

28
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How is HHS managed?

A

A to E
0.9% Saline
Fixed rate IV Insulin

29
Q

How would you manage a surgical wound infection with Staph a?

30
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How is syphilis treated?

A

Single dose IM Benzylpenicillin

31
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How is TB treated?

A

Rifampicin
Isoniazid
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol

32
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How is cryptococcal meningitis treated?

A

Amphotericin B

33
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How would you manage MGUS/Smouldering Myeloma?

A

No treatment needed

34
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How would you treat gonorrhoea?

A

IM Ceftriaxone

35
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What are the 5 steps for suspected Diabetes Insipidus?

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Glucose
K
Ca
Plasma/Urine Osmolality
8 Hour water deprivation test
36
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How is nephrogenic diabetes insipidus treated?

A

Thiazide Diuretics

37
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What is the only curative treatment for myelofibrosis?

A

Stem Cell Transplant

38
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How is HIV treated in pregnancy?

A

Zidovudine (NRTI)

39
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How is Digoxin toxicity treated?

40
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How would you treat hypokalaemia 3.0-3.5?

41
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How would you treat Hypokalaemia <3.0?

42
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When would you treat Hyperkalaemia?

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> 5.5 and ECG changes

>6.5 regardless

43
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How would you treat Hyperkalaemia?

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Calcium Gluconate
Dextrose + Insulin 
Nebulised Salbutamol
Maybe Calcium Resonium
Treat Cause
44
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How would you treat Carcinoid Syndrome?

A

Octeotride (Somatostatin Analogue)

45
Q

Which factors’ synthesis is inhibited by Warfarin?

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2,7,9,10

C,S,Z

46
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Which factors does heparin inhibit?

A

Thrombin

9,10,11

47
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How would you manage someone with Vitamin K Deficiency who is acutely haemorrhaging?

A

Fresh Frozen Plasma

48
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How might Myasthenia Gravis be treated?

A

Neostigmine

49
Q

Which drugs may be used to treat small/medium vessel vasculitides?

A

Corticosteroids

Cyclophosphamide

50
Q

How is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma treated?

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ABVD
Adriamycin
Bleomycin
Vinblastine
Dacarbazine
51
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How is chronic granulomatous disease treated?

52
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How is AML treated?

A

Daunorubicin

Cytarabine

53
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Which drug targets diseases with a (9;22) translocation?

54
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How is Burkitt’s Lymphoma treated?

A

Rituximab (Anti-CD20)

55
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How is Acute Rheumatic fever treated?

A

Benzylpenicillin

56
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Name one agent which may be used in the treatment of Sideroblastic Anaemia?

A

Pyridoxine

57
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How is Addison’s Treated?

A

Hormone replacement

58
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How is Haemochromatosis treated?

A

Venesection

Desferrioxamine

59
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How is Wilson’s treated?

A

Zinc + Trientine > Penicillamine

60
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How might Multiple Sclerosis be treated?

A

Corticosteroids
Interferon Beta
Natalizumab

61
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How might you manage Goodpasture’s?

A

Plasmapheresis

62
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How would you manage Kostmann Syndrome?

A

Colony stimulating factor

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