Past Paper Qs Flashcards
Two differences between cryoprecipitate and FFP?
Cryoprecipitate: only factors 8/13, VWF
FFP: all coag factors inc V
Zone one reboa
Origin of r left subclavian artery branches to coeliac trunk
What is ROTEM?
Rotational thromboelastometry:
What is TEG?
Thromboelastogram: a viscoelastic hemostatic assay that measures the global visco-elastic properties of whole blood clot formation under low shear stress.
Looks at interaction of coagulation factors, their inhibitors, anticoagulant drugs, blood cells, specifically platelets, during clotting and subsequent fibrinolysis
Used to predict transfusion/
Causes of hyperkalaemia?
Rhabdomyolysis from tissue injury?
Ws
Difference between actual and predicted survival
Hangman’s fracture?
Traumatic spondylolisthesis of C2: fracture of pars interarticularis both sides.
Hyperextension and distraction
Why dark urine in rhadomyolysis?
Myoglobin build-up
Non-traumatic causes of rhabdomyolysis?
Autoimmune muscle damage: polymyositis,
hypocalcaemia
ECG hyperkalaemia?
Short Q-T
ST depression
False localising signs?
Dysfunction distant or remote from the expected anatomical locus of pathology.
Often in raised ICP/spinal cord lesions
Signs of a squamous temporal bone fracture?
Battle’s sign
Bleeding from ear
Four reasons for false negative FAST scan?
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Four reasons for false positive FAST scan?
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Ketamine side effects
Increased RR
Nystagmus/diplopia
Hypertonia/
Agitation
