Scenario You receive a call from the ambulance control at 4pm on Friday. A pungent gas has been released in the underground train station. Your emergency department is the nearest tertiary hospital. At least 100 patients are involved. Question a. Outline your response to this notification. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2003.2 [...]
Quiz Resuscitation 014
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A 36 year old male presents to your emergency department with pain and swelling to both his left knee and right elbow joints. Question a. Describe your assessment. (50%) b. Describe your management. (50%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2003.2 – Question 3 The overall pass rate for this question was 65 / [...]
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A 25 year old prisoner is brought from the local prison by ambulance with a stab wound to the left neck. On arrival he is handcuffed to the ambulance trolley. He is muttering to himself, sitting upright, but talking with no obvious dysphonia or stridor. There is an obvious penetrating wound over the left mid [...]
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A 4 year old boy presents with a foul smelling round foreign body in his nostril. He has a history of a ventriculoseptal defect and his parents are somewhat anxious. Question a. Discuss your options with regards to his management (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2003.2 – Question 1 The overall pass [...]
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A two year old girl presents with her parents after running into the edge of a coffee table. She sustained a 4cm frontal scalp laceration above her left eyebrow. There was no loss of consciousness and no other apparent injury. Question a. Discuss the anaesthetic options in managing this child. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation [...]
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A 27 year old pregnant woman is brought to your Emergency Department after a syncopal episode. As you start to assess her she has a grand mal seizure. Question Describe your management of this patient. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.1 – Question 6 The overall pass rate for this question was 43 [...]
Quiz Paediatrics 012
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An 11 day old male presents with a history of 12 hours of fever. His parents describe a rigor at home. He is well looking, has a temperature of 390C with otherwise normal vital signs for age and is feeding normally at the breast. Question a. Discuss the investigations in this patient. (50%) b. Describe [...]
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Question Discuss the investigations available in evaluating a patient with a suspected pulmonary embolus Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.1 – Question 4 The overall pass rate for this question was 55 / 69 (79.7%). The expectation of examiners was that answers to this question would include a clinical risk stratification to guide [...]
