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FACEM SAQ and SCE Remix
June 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
ACEM Fellowship examination questions for the SAQ, VAQ and SCE now updated
FACEM VAQ remix
May 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Visual Aided Questions (VAQ) test a candidates ability to process visually presented information such as X-rays, pathology results and clinical images.
SAQ Core 021
March 7, 2011 By
A 45 year old orchard worker presents following an accidental exposure to organophosphate spray. He looks anxious and complains of abdominal pain, vomiting and weakness.
On examination you note muscle fasciculations, lacrimation, salivation, and widespread wheeze on chest auscultation.
SAQ Resuscitation 016
March 7, 2011 By
A 2 year old child with severe dehydration arrives in the emergency department. He is floppy and unresponsive. Soon after arrival he suffers a PEA (Pulseless Electrical Activity) arrest.
SAQ Administration 017
March 7, 2011 By
A surgical registrar would like to admit an 85 year old woman with constipation to your observation ward
SAQ Paediatrics 016
March 7, 2011 By
A 2 year old child who has inserted a plastic bead into his right nostril is brought to the emergency department by his mother. The child is not distressed. Part of the bead is visualised high up in the nostril.
SAQ Trauma 015
March 7, 2011 By
You are managing a 26 year old man from a motorbike crash. He has an isolated open book pelvic fracture. The patient has already received 2000ml of crystalloid and 6 units of blood.
SAQ Medicine 020
March 7, 2011 By
An elderly woman with dementia is sent to your emergency department from a nursing home. In the last 3 days she has had a change in behaviour and is acutely agitated
SAQ Core 020
March 7, 2011 By
A 16 year old woman is brought to the emergency department by her parents who are concerned about her recent loss of weight. She is known to have an eating disorder and currently has a BMI of 15
