Post Op Complications

Question 1

Nausea and vomiting
- risk factors
- pathophysiology
- alternative causes
- management + medication

Question 2

Pain
- assessment
- complications of poor pain control
- WHO analgesic ladder
- NSAIDs action and side effects
- opiates action, side effects, prescribing tips
- PCA (advantages and disadvantages)
- neuropathic pain - description and treatment

Question 3

Pyrexia
- common causes
- infection on specific post op days
- PUO definition and causes
- specific system enquiries
- investigations
- management

Question 4

Sepsis
- definition
- criteria + qSOFA
- sepsis 6
- source identification
- septic shock definition and treatment

Question 5

Haemorrhage
- classification
- clinical features
- hypotension
- management

Question 6

Atelactasis
- pathophysiology
- time frame
- risk factors
- clinical features
- management

Question 7

Delirium
- definition
- classification
- causes
- assesment + investigations
- management

Question 8

Pneumonia
- aetiology
- clinical features + examination
- differentials
- investigations
- CURB-65
- management
- complications

Question 9

Aspiration pneumonia
- lobes affected
- risk factors
- pneumonitis vs pnuemonia
- management

Question 10

DVT
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- symptoms
- investigations
- DVT wells score
- management

Question 11

PE
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- symptoms
- investigations
- PE wells score
- management

Question 12

Anastomotic leak
- when to consider
- risk factors
- clinical features
- investigation
- management

Question 13

Post op ileus
- definition
- risk factors
- presentation
- investigations
- management

Question 14

Bowel adhesions
- symptoms
- investigations and management

Question 15

Incisional hernia
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- symtpoms
- investigations
- management

Question 16

Constipation
- definition
- aetiology
- presentation
- investigations

Question 17

Surgical site infection
- classifications
- risk factors
- symptoms
- investigations

Question 18

Wound dehiscence
- classifications
- risk factors
- presentation
- investigations and management

Question 19

Keloid
- definition
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- presentation
- differentials

Question 20

AKI
- definition
- causes
- investigations
- pre renal vs intrinsic
- management
- drugs to be stopped
- drugs to be reduced

Question 21

Urinary retention
- features
- common causes
- risk factors
- assesment
- management

Question 22

UTI
- organisms
- risk factors
- features
- considered when presenting with
- investigations
- management

Question 23

Hypoglycaemia
- causes
- features
- beta blockers
- gastric dumping syndrome
- investigations
- management
- post op insulin

Question 24

Hyperkalaemia
- definition
- causes
- presentation
- assesment and investigations
- management

Question 25

Hypokalaemia
- definition
- causes
- presentation
- investigations
- management

Question 26

Hypernatremia
- definition
- causes
- features
- investigations
- management

Question 27

Hyponatraemia
- definition
- problem for surgical wounds
- causes of hypo-osmotic hyponatraemia
- post op specific
- features
- central pontine myelinolysis
- management

Question 28

ARDS