Data Interpretation Examination
Fluid balance/Obs Charts
Fluid charts neg-pos balance (Shock!!)
How you would act in response to the obs chart- ie ABC, fluid challenge.
Likely causes for deterioration etc
Causes of shock post-op
AXR
Presentation
General discussion of AXR and interpretation
Mx of leaking AAA (psoas shadow)
What is this?-Calcification
Clinical features of bowel obstruction
Differential of small bowel obstruction
Mx of SBO
Where is the obstruction
Management of bowel obstruction
Where is fluid sequestered?
What are these? staples
Post-op complications of laparotomy
CXR
Chest Xray presentation
Features of suspected aspiration, when to send patient home, what to warn
them ie return if temperature, cough, SOB etc
Diff coin lesion
Further investigations
Et tube
Ecg leads/clips
Catheters
Indications for catheterization
What to do with Pt that is hard to catheterize
Would you insert (a catheter) if urethral injury/what is alternative
ECG
Diagnosis? What treatment would you institute (MONA) & consider (thrombolysis)?
What two thrombolytic agents could you consider?
What contraindications to thrombolysis do you know?
Second ECG is post thrombolysis – what do you see? What could cause
this? (incorrect diagnosis – pericarditis; failure of treatment) What
might you now consider? (angiogram + angioplasty/stent)
Diagnosis and management of ACS – how the different ACSs are classified
and what differentiates between stable angina, NSTEMI, MI etc
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