26 True/False questions and answers
7 The following structures pass beneath the inguinal ligament:
8 Concerning carcinoid tumours:
10 Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI):
16 Sterilisation of surgical equipment may include the use of:
17 A postoperative pulmonary embolus:
18 A 5-year-old child is brought to A&E after being hit by a car travelling at 40 mph and sustaining multiple injuries:
19 Serum alpha-fetoprotein is increased in:
24 Paget’s disease of the bone:
25 The following local factors predispose to poor wound healing:
26 The following systemic factors predispose to anastomotic leakage:
27 Prophylactic antibiotic therapy:
32 When caring for a severely injured hypotensive patient:
33 Hypotension in a severely injured patient:
36 Presenting problems of cancer may include:
38 Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm may cause:
39 Patients with ruptured aortic aneurysm:
40 A painful tender irreducible hernia:
51 The causes of a mass in the right iliac fossa include:
52 A young male builder falls 5 metres off scaffolding onto a paved surface. On arrival in A&E he is unconscious and hypotensive, with blood coming from his nose and left ear:
53 An elderly female falls off her chair at her residential nursing home. On arrival, she smells of alcohol, and a hip flask of whisky is found in her handbag. She is drowsy, her speech is slurred and she asks to be left alone to sleep:
54 Two days after her hen night, a 23-year-old medical student presents to A&E with severe epigastric pain. She can remember little of the celebrations, but recalls experimenting with cocktails:
55 A 70-year-old retired stockbroker is referred by his GP with a diagnosis of intermittent calf claudication. His popliteal and pedal pulses are absent and ABPIs are 0.5 bilaterally. Duplex scanning confirms severe stenoses of both superficial femoral arteries:
