A 52 year old man has been referred to you by his general practitioner because of the recent development of macroscopic haematuria. Question a. Describe your assessment of this patient. (80%) b. Outline your disposition of this patient. (50%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.1 – Question 3 The overall pass rate for [...]
Quiz Core 014
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A 23 year old overseas student presents to your emergency department complaining that he has difficulty with his eyesight. Examination shows he can only recognise hand movements. He admits to work stresses and that he had taken an overdose of quinine tablets. Question a. Describe the clinical features and complications of a quinine overdose. (50%) [...]
Quiz Administration 012
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You are the director of an urban emergency department. Your staff have brought to your attention the case of a 24 year old woman who has presented to your emergency department on 15 occasions in the past two weeks. On each occasion she complains of severe abdominal discomfort. Investigations have failed to find a cause. [...]
Quiz Resuscitation 012
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A 32 year old multiparous woman presents via ambulance with marked per vaginal bleeding following the precipitous delivery at home of her term infant 15 minutes previously. The infant is well and is under the care of the neonatal service. The ambulance service has been unable to establish intravenous access and her blood pressure is [...]
Quiz Trauma 008
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A 45 year old male is brought into the emergency department having attempted to hang himself with a belt in his bedroom. On presentation, he has a Glasgow Coma Score of 7. Question a. Outline the potential complications of this presentation. (50%) b. Outline your management of this patient. (50%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM [...]
Quiz Core 013
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A 3 year old child is brought into the emergency department having ingested “at least 20” of her mother’s iron tablets. Question a. Describe your assessment of this patient. (50%) b. Describe your management of this patient. (50%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.2 – Question 6 The overall pass rate for this [...]
Quiz Surgery 010
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Question Discuss the investigations that could be used in the investigation of abdominal pain in a four year old child. Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.2 – Question 5 The overall pass rate for this question was 55 / 64 (85.9%). The very broad nature of this question favoured those candidates who took [...]
Quiz Medicine 013
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A 24 year old woman presents to your emergency department two weeks following a backpacking holiday in South-East Asia. She now has had three days of fevers, as well as generalised weakness, anorexia and nausea. Question Describe your assessment of this patient. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.2 – Question 4 The [...]
Quiz Paediatrics 012
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You are working in a large regional emergency department. You receive a telephone call from a doctor at a small community hospital two hours away by road. This doctor is a general practitioner with limited emergency experience. He asks for advice regarding an 18 month old boy who presented with fever, pallor and stridor. Despite [...]
Quiz Resuscitation 011
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Question a. Discuss the role of adrenaline and vasopressin in cardiac arrest. (100%) Answer Answer and Interpretation FACEM VAQ Exam 2004.2 – Question 2 The overall pass rate for this question was 33 / 64 (51.6%). It was expected that a good answer would explain the current place of both drugs in resuscitation guidelines but [...]
