2015 MCQ Flashcards by Nevinka Fonseka

Aboriginal boy from Western Sydney with recurrent otitis media and sometimes perforations.
What is appropriate management for next presentation?

Options:
Warmed olive oil irrigation
Damp tissue spears in ears
Cotrimoxazole
Cefotaxime IV 3 days
Oral abx for 1 week

oral Abx for 1 weeks

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A woman presents with left sided ear deafness. Which is true about Weber’s test?

Options:
a. Weber’s test heard in the deaf ear, indicates conductive loss.
b. Weber’s test heard in normal ear = sensorineural
c.Weber’s test louder in opposite indicates sensorineural hearing loss.
d. A person without any hearing loss will have a normal result.
E.Tuning fork 215Hz used.

a person w/o any hearing loss will have a normal result

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40M, 3-4 ETOH/ day, non-smoker, 3 motnhs R knee pain O/E: R knee effusion w/ some crepitus, ligaments intat=ct, painful MCP and MTP, scaly rash on elbows

what is it

psoriatic arthritis

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55M, sudden onset chest and abdo pain after vomiting post-heavy meal. Dies few hrs later. Most likely diagnosis?

Oesophageal rupture

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14yo girl with menarche at 13 has heavy painful periods. She has lower abdominal pain which
radiates to her groin and down her legs? Misses ½ day at school each month. Which is NOT
appropriate management?

options
COCP
Iron tablets while menstruating.
Mefenamic acid 2 days before menses
Mefenamic acid D1 of period
paracetamol QID

paracetamol QID

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CXR: mostly normal, opacification of R hilar area. Cough and fever 1/52 treated w/ augmentin. WCC normal range. Most likely organism?

why?

Mycoplamsa pneumonia

M. pneumoniae= common C.A for atypical pneumonia in children
-Not responding to augmentin which is (usually) effective against Strep pneumonia or Haemophilus influenzae
R hilar opacification= consistent w/ atypical pneumonia
WCC being in normal range is typical for mycoplasma

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Mo present w/ 18mo for vaccines. Fever and cold for >2days and today grizzly w/ mild fever at 37.6. What should you do and why?

Give vaccines today. 37.6 is fine. If more than 38.5 then thing about delaying until well

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Mum presents for 4yo’s MMR vaccination. He had anaphylaxis previously to 12mth
vaccination, did not receive 18mo vaccines because of that, premature baby, recent URTI, global
developmental delay. Currently slightly unwell. Which is the absolute contraindication to
vaccination?

Options
Previous anaphylaxis
Global developmental delay
Prematurity at birth
Unwell
Previous illness

previous anaphylaxis

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21yo woman has just come home from honeymoon in Paris. She has dysuria with increased
frequency and urgency. She also has nausea, vomiting, and breast tenderness.

What is this stem describing and Which antibiotic
is most appropriate for her condition and why?

trimethoprim

(trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole= 1st line for uncomplicated UTI as it is very effective against common C.A such as E.coli)

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Pyloric stenosis- what would you see on ABG?

Metabolic alkalosis w. hypOK, hypOchloraemic and hypOnatremic

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Pt with diabetes and sudden onset visual loss- painless; floaters, no flashes, vitreous cavity
hazy, difficult to visualise retina.
Abnormal red reflex

What is it? and WHY
A. Amaurosis fugax
B.Vitreous haemorrhage
C. Retinal detachment
D. Closedangle glaucoma.
E. Temporal arteritis.

Vitreous haemorrhage

key is the hazy vitreous cavity. common in diabetics w/ retinopathy

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Someonewithsomesymptomsandhasabutterflyrash.

Which antibody is most specific at
diagnosing SLE and why?

Options

A. Anti-cardiolipin Ab
A. Anti-dsDNA
B. ANA
C. W-ANC

anti-ds DNA= more SPECIFIC to SLE

Although ANA is done more routinely (1st line) in SLE- it is not specific and is a marker used to detect many autoimmune condition. (+ve in 98% SLE)

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.Which is not associated with H.pylori?
A. GIST
A. Gastritis
B. Gastric adenocarcinoma
C. Gastric lymphoma
D. Peptic Ulcer

GIST is NOT associated w/ H.pylori (GI stromal tumours) whereas all the other conditions are

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Inferior nasal meatus drains which structure?
A. Nasolacrimal duct
A. Eustachian tube
B. Maxillary sinus
C. Sphenoid sinus
D. Ethmoidal

nasolacrimal duct

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3yo brought in by family after falling off climbing frame. Bruises on neck and back. R-ray shows 3 R-sided rib # and spiral fracture of left humerus.What is the most likely cause
of his injuries?
A. Non-accidental injury
A. Accidental injury
B. Osteogenesisimperfecta
C. Osteomalacia

Non-accidental injury

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what cancer is most likely to spread to bone?

breast adenocarcinoma
2.colon
gastric
melanoma
5.cervical

Breast

remember: prostate, lung, renal and breast

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80+yo with depression and insomnia. Which medication would you prescribe
A. Prochlorperazine
A. Citalopram
B. Amitriptyline
C. Diazepam

amitriptylline- because of insomnia AND depression although SSRI would usually be 1st line

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Mother concerned about developmental delay in 18mth kid- 20 words, not interested in
crayons, plays alongside but does not play with other children. On observation, does engage in
good imaginative play, initial shyness but eventually engages well with you.

Options:
Normal kid
Autism
Developmental delay
Hearing problem
Isolated language delay

normal

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Parents bring in 2yo child. Has been treated with antibiotics 4 times for suspected otitis
media infections, since starting daycare 6 months ago. Childcare says he’s angry, parents say
he’s fine at home although sometimes gets frustrated and lashes out. Has about 50 single words,
but not yet stringing them together. Plays well with kids at home but not at daycare. What do you
do?

Options
Refer for autism spectrum assessment
Tell the parents to get a new childcare centre.
Refer for brain scan
Refer to audiologist for hearing assessment.
Normal child

refer to audiologist for hearing assessment

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32yo overweight female diabetic, on OCP, smoker, bed-bound after operation for ankle
fracture for last few weeks. Presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Tachycardic,
tachypnoeic. What is the most appropriate initial test?

ECG OR cxr?

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Which of the following is not true about the use of LMAs?

Options
LMAs should not be used after failed ETT intubation
LMA may have already been inserted by the ambulance officers.
LMAs require less equipment to insert than ETT
LMA will stop aspiration
LMAs are safe in suspected neck injury

LMA will stop aspiration is NOT true

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28 year old woman with MS. Can’t void urine, has had multiple UTIs, in urinary retention.
What’s the most appropriate management?

Options:
Electro-stimulation of bladder
In-dwelling urethral catheter
Indwelling suprapubic catheter
Intermittent self-catheterise
Ileal conduit

intermittent self-catheterisation

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The dude with the thoracic vertebra T12 total severance. What will be immediately evident?

Options
Detrusor hyperexcitability
External sphincter hyperexcitability
Overflow incontinence
Stress incontinence
Unable to pass urine

detrusor hyperexcitability

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3 month old baby girl, mother noticed small amount of mucous and blood in nappy

Options
Refer to paediatrician
Vaginal swab for MCS
Reassure mother
Pelvic ultrasound

refer to paediatrician

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Refugee presents to ED with headache (3am) .Limited English,12year old daughter helped translate the history for triage.Which is most appropriate: A. Organise interpreter A. Assess Need for interpreter. B. Conduct the consultation with the patient. C. Use daughter as interpreter D. Pre-read all available information

organise interpreter

9YO comes in with asthma (again),what indicates that it is a life-threatening episode? A. RR24 A. HR110 B. expiratory wheeze without inspiratory wheeze C. accessory muscle use with intercostal recession D. SaO286%

accessory muscle use with intercostal recession

F has ache in shoulder and can't lift arm following modified particle mastectomy. Husband noticed bump on back. Which nerve is likely injured?

long thoracic

6 month old, flat frontalle, purpuric rash and fever. Has had IV bolus of fluid. What is the most appropriate next step? a. Hx from Mo b. CSF culture c. urine culture d. blood culture e. IV abx

This sounds like septic meningitis (meningococcal sepsis) so start IV Abx

.Young male with headache in early hours of morning for 5-6 successive days.Previous episode of 3 in1day.Also associated with, intense pain, could not open eyes for examination during the episode. A. Cluster A. Temporal arteritis B. Acuteangle-closureglaucoma C. Subacute angle closure glaucoma

cluster

The most appropriate investigation to diagnose the condition in a 3-year-old female with wide-set nipples and a wide, thick webbed neck is? A. Karyotype A. FISHforWilliam’s B. DoaneckUSS C. Totalgenomesequencing D. 17-progesterone

karyotype for Turner's syndrome (one X chromosome is missing or partially missing)

Ankle injury forced eversion,pain at infero medial malleolus A. Deltoid ligament A. Anterior talofibular ligament B. Anterior tibiofibular ligament C. talocalcaneal ligament D. medial calcaneofibular ligament

deltoid ligament

R middle finger held in flexion following puncture wound by rusty nail to lateral side previously. Now systemically unwell (febrile), pain in finger, diffusely swollen finger. Movement of distal phalanx is painful, particularly on extension. What is going on? Options: Infected extensor tendon. Infected flexor tendon sheath Pulp infection paronychia cellulitis and what are the cardinal signs of this condition?

infected flexor tendon sheath Pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis Kanavel's signs - exquisite tenderness throughout and limited to the sheath - fusiform swelling of affected digit (sausage finger) - extreme pain on extension -held in felxion

Female w/ sudden onset acutely painful L-sided throbbing headache. L ptosis, miosis and anhydrosis (Horner's syndrome). L eye sunken and vision impaired on L. OPTIONS: ICA dissection Temporal arteritis Migraine Stroke SAH.

ICA dissection

2yo child with wheezing and shortness of breath. Has had previous wheezing episodes. Talking in sentences. 97% O2 sats. What is management? Options Salbutamol via spacer Salbutamol via spacer and fluticasone via spacer Salbutamol via nebuliser Salbutamol via spacer or nebuliser + O

salbutamol via spacer and fluticasone via spacer

Woman with [symptoms of urge incontinence]. What is the most appropriate medication? Options Oxybutynin Minipress (prazosin) Betachol Atropine Methyldopa

oxybutynin- used to treat overactive bladder/ urge incontinence (anticholinergic) contraindicated in urinary or bowel retention, myesthenia gravis, glaucoma and severe UC

Which is correct about Crohn’s Options Get fissures & fistula formation continuous inflammation superficial layer something about the rectum UC more cancer than UC

get fissure and fictula formation

Child 3 day hx of abdo cramps, watery diarrhoea with streaks of blood in stools, No Fhx A.Salmonella A. Rotavirus B. Norovirus C. Giardia D. Clostridium difficile

c. diff- need to look over this

45M, active, no risk factors, sudden onset chest pain wrose on inspiration, no SDOB, mild fever, widespread STE in all leads

acute pericarditis: saddle ST elevation

elderly F present with confusion, hx of renal dx and cardiac dx, Bloods show hyponatremia, low-normal K, Cr 120. Which drug is most likely to cause her confusion? a. indapamide b. ramipril c. aspirin

indapamide (thiazide)

febrile child with jt effusion, limited ROM

septic arthritis

6yo F, upper tibia pain, normal x-ray, pain note affected by movement and fever

osteomyelitis

40M, poor sleep, poor concentration, loss of appetite. Has not taken antidepressants before. What would be first line? a. sertraline b. venalfaxine c. amisulpride d. mianserin

sertraline (SSRI)

patient presents with foot drop, unable to dorsiflex and revert. Decreased sensation in webspace between hallux and 2nd digit. What neuro structure most likely affected.

common peroneal n (branch of sciatic n)

aspirin OD- what would early ABG show

EARLY: respiratory alkalosis due to hyperventilation but then later develop metabolic acidosis with partial respiratory compensation aspirin= salicylic acid

health primagravida F, labour 12 hours and is going well. 6hrs in= rupture membranes. Cervix 3cm effacing. Baby good and position ROT. - appropriate next step?

augment with syntocinon

best way to observe adverse effect of opioid.

sedation score

Baby born with Apgars 8 and 9. Cyanotic 4 hours after birth despite full 100% O2 Options atrial septal defect Strep B sepsis Transposition of great vessels

transposition of great vessels

12yo M came in with testicular pain. O/E L testis swollen and palpable. Eaten 3 hours ago. Immediate mx?

surgical exploration

Child presents with DKA. pH 7.09 what would be your first step in initial mx

IV fluids

Injury to the ulnar nerve- with complete transection, will result in all of the following signs except? Options Atrophy of the thenar eminence Hyperextension of MCP of digits 4-5 Loss of thumb adduction Sensory loss over digits 4-5 Loss of abduction of digits 4-5

atrophy of thenar eminence

2yo F, reluctant to walk, especially in morning. Raised ESR nad CRP. a. JIA B. septic arthritis c. ALL d. slipped femoral epiphysis and why?

JIA (due to raised inflammatory markers, afebrile, stiff in mornings, no other sx.s) septic arthritis: hot, swollen jt and febrile ALL: easy bruising, hepatosplenomegaly, generalized sx.s slipped cap: more common in older overweight children, no raised inflammatory markers or mane stiffness

baby with purpuric rash on butt, jt pain and abdo pain a. Henoch-schonlein purpura b. meningococcal b. HUS (haemolytic uremic syndrome) d. ITP (immune throbocytppenic purpura) and why

HSP triad: purpuric rash (often lower exttremitis and butt), jt pain and abdo pain. HSP is a small vessle vasculitis and most common vasculittis in children HUS triad of haemolytic anaemia, thrombocytopenia and AKI, often following diarrhoeal illness (purpuric rasha nd jt pain are LESS TYPICAL) ITP: isolated thrombocytopenia= petechiae and purpura withOUT jt pain or abdo pain associated

what is donepezil?

anti-cholinesterase for the mx of alzheimer's

9yo M, large penis has growth spurt. XR bown age 2years ahead of actual age. Testes nromal for 9yo. What test to determine growth spurt?

GH stimulation test or GH assay

baby normal. Dveelops SOB 6hrs after delivery. X-ray show fluid in interlobar fissures. a. meconium aspiration pneumonia b. transient tachypnoea of newborn c. respiratory distress syndrome/ hyaline membrane dx d. group B strep infection d. diaphragmatic hernia what is it and why?

transient tachypneoa of newborn: respir distress shortly after birth caused by delayed clearing offetal lung fluid= CXR fluid in interlobar fissures Meconium aspiration pneumonia: meconium stained, patchy infiltartes on CXR RDS: due to surfactant deficiency, in premature infants diaphragmatic hernia: abdo contents in thoracic cavity on CXR group B strep: signs of infection including fever and diffuse pattern on CXR

10yo F, started periods , breast and pubic hair at tanner stage 3, height 25th percentile, weight 50th, mid-parental height 10-25th percentile. What Ix?

normal

recentlt arrived refugee, stool sample in GP showed giardia cysts. How to manage? options: metronidazole 7days QDS tinidazole stat ivermectin 15mg today and again in 2 weeks azithromycin no tx needed

metronidazole 7days QDS

M, overdose on something. HR70, BP 100/50, RR 14, T 37.3. Presented with miosis (contricted pupils), hyporeflexia, otherwise neurologically intact no focal neuro signs. a. opiate b. anticholinergic b. antihistamine c. phenothiazines d. TCA

opiates

7yo F, asymptomatic, loud pansystolic murmur and palpable thrill LSE on routine check. Heart sounds and apex beat other wise normal.

VSD

M with sweating, weight loss of 6kg, tremor, no mention of exopthalmos, diffuse selling of neck a. graves b. toxic multinodular goitre c. toxic adenoma d. subacute thyroiditis e. hashimoto's

Graves

8month old aboriginal child with UTD immunisations, meningitis sx.s cloudy CSF on LP- most likely organism

neisseria meningitidis

6 week old, forceful vomitting initially clear and later bile-stained. Paucity of gas seen after duodenum on AXR a. pyloric stenosis b. duodenal atresia c. Hirschprun d. malrotation w/ vovulus

pyloric stenosis

Boy with gastroenteritis going into shock. Bolus 0.9% saline. He is 14kg- how much fluid and why

for children 0-18 normal 0.9% saline 10-20ml/kg so 140-280ml for this boy

Old F, few weeks hx o abdo colic and intermittent abdo distensio. She had microcytic anaemia. What is the most likely diagnosis? a. diverticulitis b. sigmoid volvulus c. carcinoma of caecum d. cholelithiasis

carcinoma of the caecum

5yo F, cervical lymphadenopathy, had fever. Not getting better after more than a week, then developed viral exanthem on chest, bilateral non-purulent conjunctivitis, oedematous hand causing failure to cannulated. what is most likely?

Kawasaki dx

what sign if present in head of pancreas cancer? a. caput medusa b. pain at costovertebral angle c. shifting dullness d. mass in RUQ palpable during respiration e. gastric succession splash

Mass in RUQ palpable during respiration

2015 MCQ Flashcards

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