Question 1 | A critique of cerebral perfusion pressure as a therapeutic target. (Neurology and Neurosurgery) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 2 | (Endocrinology Metabolism and Nutrition) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 3.1 | Interpretation of arterial waveforms: pulse pressure variation. (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 3.2 | Interpretation of abnormal IABP waveforms: the significance of early balloon deflation. (Cardiothoracic Intensive Care) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 3.3 | Interpretation of CVP waveforms (tricuspid regurgitation); as well as several others. (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 4 | Care for the post-pneumonectomy patient: the chest drain is on suction (Cardiothoracic Intensive Care) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 5 | (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 6.1 | The Wheatstone bridge pressure transducer: principles of operation. (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 6.2 | Reference point for the "zero" value of invasive arterial blood pressure measurement. (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 6.3 | Flanged tracheostomy tube - features which make it "suitable for use". (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 6.4 | Pulmonary artery catheter: Directly measured and derived PA catheter variables (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 6.5 | (Equipment and Procedures) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 7.1 | (Cardiothoracic Intensive Care) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 7.2 | Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; "What's That Rash?" (Haematology and Oncology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 8 | (Communication and Ethics) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 9 | (Infectious Disease Antibiotics and Sepsis) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 10.1 | (Cardiothoracic Intensive Care) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 10.2 | (Cardiology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 11 | (Neurology and Neurosurgery) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 12.1 | Cardiovascular physical examination: causes of an irregularly irregular pulse. (Cardiology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 12.2 | Portal hypertension: list 4 clinical signs (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 12.3 | (Trauma, Burns, Drowning) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 12.4 | Physical signs of cerebellar disease: ones which do not involve the limbs (Neurology and Neurosurgery) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 13 | A day 5 post-trauma patient has fallen apart. What are the causes of lactic acidosis? (Acid-Base Disorders) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 14 | (Pregnancy, Obstetrics and Gynaecology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 15.1 | Clinical testing for brain death: gas exchange during apnoea testing. (Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 15.2 | Lactic acidosis which resolves rapidly - seizures, cardiac arrest or hanging. (Acid-Base Disorders) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 15.3 | Causes of lactic acidosis (red cell transketolase comes up) (Acid-Base Disorders) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 16 | Assessment of fluid balance in the critically ill patient (Electrolytes and Fluids) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 17 | Management of severe heart failure: specifically right heart failure. (Cardiology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 18 | Iron poisoning - clinical signs, investigations, characteristic ABG findings (Pharmacology and Toxicology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 19 | (Endocrinology Metabolism and Nutrition) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 20 | Clinical features and management of malaria. (Infectious Disease Antibiotics and Sepsis) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 21 | Isoosmolar hyponatremia: TURP syndrome (Electrolytes and Fluids) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 22 | Outline the role of vasopressin and its analogues in the critically ill patient.> (Pharmacology and Toxicology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 23.1 | "What's Wrong With These Coags?" -a pan-coagulopathy, everything is going wrong. (Haematology and Oncology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 23.2 | "What's Wrong With These Coags?" - a failure of the intrinsic pathway (high APTT). (Haematology and Oncology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 24 | (Statistics and Interpretation of Evidence) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 25.1 | Methods of intracranial pressure monitoring: indications for CT head before lumbar puncture. (Neurology and Neurosurgery) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 25.2 | "Name That Microbe": which Gram-positive bacillus is causing this meningitis ? (Infectious Disease Antibiotics and Sepsis) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 25.3 | "Name That Microbe": which Gram-negatives have innate imipenem resistance? (Infectious Disease Antibiotics and Sepsis) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 25.4 | "Name That Microbe": pneumonia, arthralgia and a new murmur in a cattle farmer (Infectious Disease Antibiotics and Sepsis) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 26 | (Respiratory Medicine and Mechanical Ventilation) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 27 | Analysis of ventilator waveforms and pressure-volume curves. (Respiratory Medicine and Mechanical Ventilation) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 28.1 | (Pharmacology and Toxicology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 28.2 | Tricyclic antidepressant overdose: role of sodium bicarbonate (Pharmacology and Toxicology) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 29 | (Miscellaneous Topics) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |
Question 30 | (Trauma, Burns, Drowning) - Pass rate ?; highest mark ? . |