MFE Flashcards
What scoring system is used to assess risk of developing pressure sores?
Waterlow score
Middle aged adult with insidious onset dementia and personality changes?
Frontotemporal dementia
Mode of action of memantine?
NMDA antagonist
Mode of action of donepezil?
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
Ruptured ACL type of injury?
Sport injury
High twisting force applied to bent knee
Presentation of ACL injury?
Loud crack, pain and RAPID joint swelling.
Management of ACL injury?
Intense physiotherapy or surgery
Ruptured PCL mechanism?
Hyperextension.
CAR CRASH.
Presentation of PCL injury?
Positive posterior drawer test.
Ruptured MCL mechanism?
Leg forced into valgus via force outside the leg
Rupture of MCL presentation?
Knee unstable when put into valgus position
Chondromalacia patellae?
Teenage girls
Following knee injury
Pain downstairs or at rest
Tenderness, quadriceps wasting