PATH 2024 Flashcards by Danea Saad

Rank from narrow to broad spectrum
Cefalexin
Amoxicillin
Ceftriaxone
Pip taz
Meropenem

Cefalexin
Amoxicillin
Ceftriaxone
Pip taz
Meropenem

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Patient with hospital acquired pneumonia, rank from most to least likely

Escherichia coli (~31%)
2. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (~17%)
3. Candida albicans (~7%)
4. Acinetobacter baumannii (~6%)
5. Coxiella burnetii (essentially negligible/rare in HAP

Escherichia coli (as part of Enterobacterales – ~31%)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (~17%)
Candida albicans (~7%)
Acinetobacter baumannii (~6%)
Coxiella burnetii (essentially negligible/rare in HAP

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Rank from highest to lowest specificity for rheumatoid arthritis
Anti-CCP
Rheumatoid factor
HLA-DR4
CRP
HLA-B27

Anti-CCP
Rheumatoid factor
HLA-DR4
CRP
HLA-B27

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Rank from largest to smallest vessel affected
Takayasu arteritis
Cerebral giant cell arteritis
Polyarteritis nodosa
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Capillaritis

Takayasu arteritis
Cerebral giant cell arteritis
Polyarteritis nodosa
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Capillaritis

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Rank platelets from high to low
Essential thrombocythemia
Rheumatoid arthritis
Beta thalassaemia trait
Normal pregnancy
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpur

Essential thrombocythemia
Rheumatoid arthritis
Beta thalassaemia trait
Normal pregnancy
Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpur

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Thrombosis risk (lowest to highest, might have been highest to lowest)

Brisk 1 hour walk
75mg Aspirin
4 hour flight
COCP to someone heterozygous for Factor V Liden
Inherited antithrombin III deficiency

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Rank lowest to highest PTH (they gave calcium values)
Breast cancer with bony mets (Ca 2.9? it was high)
Paget’s disease of bone
Osteoporosis (Ca 2.4?)
Primary hyperparathyroidism (Ca 2.9)
Secondary hyperparathyroidism

Breast cancer with bony mets (Ca 2.9? it was high)
Paget’s disease of bone
Osteoporosis (Ca 2.4?)
Primary hyperparathyroidism (Ca 2.9)
Secondary hyperparathyroidism

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Rank potassium from high to low

Addisons
Hypothyroidism
Pheochromocytoma
Cushing’s disease
ACTH dependent Cushing’s syndrome

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Development of cancer in chronological order
HPV
Low grade dysplasia
High grade dysplasia
Carcinoma
Lymph node mets

HPV
Low grade dysplasia
High grade dysplasia
Carcinoma
Lymph node mets

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Rank the development of liver cancer
Fatty changes
Steatohepatitis
Fibrosis
Cirrhosis
Hepatocarcinoma

Fatty changes
Steatohepatitis
Fibrosis
Cirrhosis
Hepatocarcinoma

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How is mycoplasma pneumonia resistant against beta lactam antibiotics?

Lacks cell wall

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A 2 day old newborn has blood culture with gram-negative rods, and mother had fever in labour. What is the likely organism?

E. coli

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Patient present with knee swelling, cultures show MRSA. What antibiotic should be started?

vancomycin

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What is the single most important intervention in someone who has catheter-associated UTI?

Remove catheter

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Which vaccine-preventable illness can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis 7-15 years later?

Measles

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Person with meningitis symptoms but is allergic to penicillins & cephalosporins (anaphylaxis). What antibiotic should she be given?

chloramphenicol

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Why has avian influenza H5N1 etc not caused a pandemic in humans?

No human to human transmission

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Mother has active herpes lesions (at 37 weeks?) How should the baby be delivered?

C section

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Question describing life cycle of a helminth and asking which one. It autoinfects?

strongyloides

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Influenza vaccines given to children as a nasal spray?

Live attenuated influenza vaccine

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Kid visits a petting zoo, then get bloody diarrhoea, pathogen that causes HUS ->

E coli

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Which hepatitis is coinfection with hepatitis D?

Hep B

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Name preventative measure to give to a patient with Howell jolly bodies on blood film.

vaccination

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What common anti-viral for which there is resistance via mutated thymidine kinase?

Acyclovir

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Which 2 drugs are multidrug resistant TB resistant against?

Isoniazid and rifampicin

Mpox caused serious disease, what vaccine is given to high risk e.g. healthcare workers caring for infected patients?

Smallpox (also known as IMVANEX)

What drug do you give in anaphylaxis?

IM adrenaline

12 yo Girl with urticaria & wheeze when she ate walnuts. How do you confirm walnut allergy?

Skin prick test RAST/Specific IgE Gold standard is Double blind oral food challenge

Post strep glomerulonephritis - what hypersensitivity reaction?

Type III

Goodpasture's Syndrome, what type of hypersensitivity reaction?

Type II

Which arthritis can rituximab be used against?

Rheumatoid arthritis

Gene thats affected in IPEX?

Foxp3

Cells targets in effector phase of acute antibody-mediated organ rejection.

Endothelial cells

Child with recurrent immune infections and abnormal DHR test?

Chronic granulomatous disease

Antibodies found in droopy eyelids and weakness, worst at the end of the day.

Anti-acetylcholine receptor

Need to check TPMT before starting what drug ?

Azathioprine

Antibodies found in graves?

TSH receptor antibody

Mutation in the common gamma chain of interleukin-2?

X-linked SCID

Man with recent weight loss, sinusitis, nose bleeds, renal failure and ANCA positive. Biopsy showed cytoplasmic granular deposits. What is the most likely diagnosis ->

GPA, Wegner’s granulomatosis

Woman with dry eyes, specifically denies CREST symptoms.

Sjogren’s disease

Blood results for a woman previously treated for breast cancer with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Hb Low, WBC normal, Neutrophil low, lymphocyte normal, film shows pelger-huet cells. dx?

Myelodysplastic syndrome

Most common haematological malignancy in young adults.

Hodgkin lymphoma

Which amyloidosis is associated with multiple myeloma.

AL/light-chain

Lady with fever, schistocytes, confusion, low platelets, low GFR (renal failure).

TTP

What process should be performed prior to transplant to prevent GvHD.

Irradiation

Some woman with microcytic anaemia and feeling tired, most likely diagnosis?

Iron deficiency anaemia

Patient had a DVT after a surgery, was treated with apixaban and tolerated it well. How long should you continue the treatment?

3 months

A woman came in for her antenatal appointment. Blood results with only slightly low platelets

Gestational thrombocytopenia

Man with acute onset back pain, GP sent straight to A&E. The ambulance crew tested and he can’t walk properly and have paresthesia. What is the next most urgent investigation?

MRI spine

Plasma type given as universal donor.

How to monitor LMWH if needed ?

Anti-Xa assay

MOH, blood results showing anaemia and DIC. What blood product to give someone with low fibrinogen?

cryoprecipitate

JAK2 mutation with high Hct, leukocytosis and thrombocytosis —> what blood disorder?

polycythaemia rubra vera

Normal IgG, low IgA and low IgG. Hx of ITP. Repeated infections but in adulthood - said happened over the last few years. Bloods were all normal. What is the cause?

Common variable immune deficiency

Child with limp. High wcc, low platelets. Most likely diagnosis?

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

The common source molecule of all steroids?

cholesterol

First line treatment for severe hypercalcaemia?

IV 0.9% saline

Man with IVDU, tried to inject then misses his vein lol, and has blood in urine but no red cells - name of protein responsible.

myoglobin

What substance is missing in urine in obstructive jaundice?

urobilinogen

Which hormone acts on the adrenal gland to stimulate cortisol production.

ACTH

What acts on adrenal to stimulate aldosterone production.

Angiotensin 2

Hormone that stimulates osteoblasts?

PTH

Slightly high prolactin and suppressed other pituitary hormones ?

Non functioning pituitary adenoma

Vitamin C deficiency disease.

Scurvy

Vitamin D deficiency disease.

Rickets

Positive birefringence on aspirate of knee.

Pseudogout

Enzyme expressed in sarcoidosis that causes hypercalcaemia.

1 alpha hydroxylase

Enzyme targeted by evolocumab?

PCSK9

Which small interfering RNA is given as a twice annual injection for people with high lipids?

Inclisiran

Asymptomatic patient registered at GP. Normal LFTs with isolated raised unconjugated bilirubin. Diagnosis?

Gilberts

Name a breast cancer that varies from benign to malignant?

Phyllodes tumour

Which bone disease is there a jig-saw/mosaic pattern of bone with jaw pain?

Paget’s disease

patient with amyloidosis- which cardiomyopathy?

Restrictive

Most common cause of aortic stenosis?

Age related calcification

Most common cause of chronic pancreatitis?

Alcohol

Name of lung disease in someone with A1 antitrypsin deficiency?

Panacinar emphysema

Which bullous disease is intraepidermal acantholysis?

Pemphigus vulgaris

Haemorrhage type associated with berry aneurysms?

Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Skin lesions and transmural inflammation, which IBD?

Crohn’s Disease

Lobe of prostate most likely to be origin of malignancy?

Posterior lobe

What type of tissue calcification is hypercalcaemia associated with?

metastatic calcification

Type of cancer of parafollicular parathyroid cells?

Medullary

Greatest risk factor for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?

Cirrhosis

Protein deposited in the kidneys in Familial mediterranean fever that causes nephrotic syndrome

Amyloid AA

What is present in the urine of normal people but not in those with obstructive jaundice?

Urobilinogen

1. Which of the following is associated with HMB synthase deficiency 1. acute intermittent porphyria 2. hereditary coporphyria 3. erythrocytic coporphyria 4. basically listed all the other porphyrias

acute intermittent porphyria

2. Woman is a smoker who has been on furosemide for a long time. Has high Hb, high Hct, normal red cell mass, low plasma volume, Jak2 negative. What is the likely cause? Primary polycythaemia Secondary polycythaemia Psuedo(relative) polycythaemia

Psuedo(relative) polycythaemia

3. Middle-aged man has a DVT what is the most important thing to rule out a. Occult malignancy b. Haemoglobinopathy c. Hereditary thrombophilia

Occult malignancy

4. Patients with liver failure and heart failure, on biopsy there are iron deposits in the heart and liver. Iron studies reveal the following: Low transferrin (0.5) . Iron was like 4000 and saturation 100% (normal value around 50%) a. Ferroportin transporter deficiency b. Hereditary haemachromatosis c. Alcoholic disease d. Hepatitis B e. Other options might be correct

Hereditary haemachromatosis

Question about auer rods, granules and DIC, blood film shows immature myelocytes

a. APML

6. Woman who is a B thalassemia carrier and has no clinical features. Her partner has been tested and he does not carry any of the gene. What is the likelihood that their child will have symptomatic B thalassemia? a. 0 b. 1 in 4 c. 2 in 4 d. 3 in 4 e. 4 in 4

7. A 38 week pregnant woman is at moderate risk of VTE - what should she be on? - similar to specialties question a. Aspirin and heparin b. LMWH c. Aspirin

LMWH

8. Lady spends 10 days in hospital and develops a VTE in her femoral vein. Greatest risk factor for VTE in vignette? a. Pregnancy b. Immobilisation c. Chronic alcoholic d. Protein C deficiency

Immobilisation

9. What condition does HTLV1 cause?

a. acute T cell leukaemia/lymphoma

10. Low platelets on FBC, first investigation to request? a. Blood film b. Bone marrow biopsy c. Inherited thrombogenic condition?

Blood film

11. Man comes back from Ghana. Feels tired or unwell. No palpable splenomegaly. Thrombocytopaenia. Reticulocytes low, neutrophils high. 37.5C. Sickle cell trait. Unwell 10 days ago, then fully recovered. Now unwell again with non blanching rashes. a. Parvovirus B19 b. Splenic sequestration c. Sickle trait d. CML e. Bone marrow infarct

a. Parvovirus B19

12. CLL drug ibrutinib targets what enzyme a. Bruton tyrosine kinase b. ACL gene

Bruton tyrosine kinase

1. Person that came in with leukaemia symptoms. Blood tests showed high lymphocytes and blast cells. What investigation would reveal the most information? a. Peripheral blood immunophenotyping b. Cytological and genetic analysis c. Bone marrow test d. CT scan

c. Bone marrow test

14. Most important thing to be matched when doing a stem cell transplant? a. HLA b. Blood group c. CMV status d. Gender e. Ethnicity

HLA

15. What type of lymphoma has an indolent course? a. follicular b. Hodgkin’s c. Burkitt’s d. Diffuse large B cell e. Mantel cell

Follicular

1. Man has inflammation from anus to splenic flexure and crypt abscesses. What is he at risk of? a. Perianal fistula b. Primary sclerosing cholangitis c. diverticulitis

PSC (this is UC)

2. Keratin pearls and intraepithelial bridges, what histological type of malignancy? a. squamous cell carcinoma b. adenocarcinoma c. Basal cell carcinoma

squamous cell carcinoma

1. Alcoholic with hematemesis after a bout of vomiting, a history of liver cirrhosis, what is the cause? (repeat) a. oesophageal varices b. strictures

oesophageal varices

4. Dilated heart chambers and normal valves a. restrictive cardiomyopathy b. Dilated cardiomyopathy c. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Dilated cardiomyopathy

5. Virus in japan associated with H.pylori. It causes cancer of what organ? a. Lung b. Colon c. Stomach d. Breast e. Uterus

Stomach

6. 30 cm tumour that is in the left retroperitoneum, obscuring left psoas muscle. Colon is normal. No blood in stool. What is the tumour? a. Liposarcoma b. Adenocarcinoma c. Hamartoma d. Lymphoma e. melanoma

Liposarcoma

7. Mother describes 3mm red lump on child's chest ? What is it? a. Haemangioma b. Melanoma

a. Haemangioma

8. Which testicular tumour is sensitive to radiation? a. Seminoma b. yolk sac tumour c. sertoli cell tumour d. Leydig cell tumour

Seminoma

9. What feature characterises a malignant cell? a. Atypia b. Invasion c. Pleomorphism d. Increased nuclear/cytoplasm ratio

b. Invasion

10. Likely cancer that someone with uncontrolled coeliac disease would get a. Lymphoma b. Adenocarcinoma

Lymphoma

11. Child with nephrotic syndrome. Likely biopsy of kidney shows: a. Minimal change b. Crescent something c. Glomerulonephritis

Minimal change

12. Middle aged woman is itching. Anti ama what condition?

a. PBC

13. Chemotherapy given for leukaemia. Renal failure develops later. Most likely cause? a. Nephrocalcinosis, b. urate nephropathy c. membranous glomerulonephritis

urate nephropathy

SLE most specific test?Something about a women presenting with facial rash, oral ulcerations, raynauds, small joint pain in her hands, what antibody would you look for? a. Anti-dsDNA, b. ANA

Anti-dsDNA

1. Which part of adrenal is responsible for production of aldosterone a. zona glomerulosa b. zona fasciculata c. zona reticularis d. cortex e. medulla

zona glomerulosa

2. Mother of a child with T1DM reports being hypoglycaemic whenever she checks. Her has low C-peptides, high Insulin and low glucose (2 mmol). Cause ? a. Taking exogenous insulin b. Insulinoma c. T1DM d. sulphonylurea

Taking exogenous insulin

3. Breathless women with widespread wheeze. Low pH. Normal bicarbonate. (I think low O2 and high PCO2) a. Resp acidosis uncompensated b. Resp alkalosis c. Mixed resp and metabolic d. Metabolic acidosis compensated e. Metabolic alkalosis

Resp acidosis uncompensated

4. Patient with complete 21 hydroxylase deficiency, what is the likely electrolyte balance a. Low sodium, low potassium b. Low sodium, high potassium, c. High sodium, low potassium d. High sodium, high potassium

Low sodium, high potassium

5. Man who had COVID and treated with dexamethasone for 10 days. He has noticed central weight gain and striae, which has continued despite finishing treatment and regular exercise. 1 mg dexamethasone test. Cortisol 700 (normal: smth - 700) midnight cortisol was low (as expected). Administration of 1mg dexamethasone suppresses cortisol (even more) by the morning. CT showed small bilateral adrenal mass. MRI pituitary showed a 2mm pituitary mass. lung X ray showed infiltrates and areas of consolidation. a. Ectopic ACTH b. Pituitary dependent ACTH c. Simple obesity d. COVID induced renal failure e. adrenal carcinoma

Simple obesity

Which complication does SGLT 2 help prevent in diabetic patients a. MI b. renal failure, c. Stroke d. Neuropathy e. Retinopathy

7. Tingling in extremities following a surgery for toxic multinodular goitre removal. Which of these would we want to measure in bloods? a. calcium, b. thyroxine c. potassium d. cant remember the other options

Calcium

8. Drug causing hypoglycaemia a. quinine, b. thiazide, c. prednisolone d. glucagon

Quinine

9. What increases following intravascular haemolysis? a. Calcium b. Sodium c. Potassium

Potassium

10. Which term is defined as true negatives divided by the people who don’t have the disease? a. Specificity b. Sensitivity c. Positive predictive value d. Negative predictive value e. Z score

Specificity

11. Palpitations, hyperthyroid woman. Most important medication to give a. doxazosin b. propanolol

Propranolol

12. Low GFR. Patient with uremia, most likely complication? a. metabolic acidosis b. mixed alkalosis c. metabolic alkalosis d. respiratory alkalosis e. respiratory acidosis

metabolic acidosis

13. What hormone triggers the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland? a. CRH b. GH c. TRH d. ACTH e. GNRH

TRH

1. type of vaccine is diphtheria a. subunit b. toxoid c. inactivated d. live

Toxoid

2. What vaccine should not be given to immunosuppressive people due to risk of reactivation a. Polio b. tetanus

Polio

3. Which condition would plasmapheresis most likely benefit? a. Myasthenia gravis b. Rheumatoid arthritis c. X linked Hyper IGM Syndrome d. IgA vasculitisis

Myasthenia gravis

4. Patient is on immunosuppression (prednisolone and something else). WHich vaccine should they not receive?

a. Zostavax

5. Which auto-antibody is able to cross the placenta and cause congenital cardiac problems? a. Anti Jo b. Anti Ro c. Anti-Sm (smith) d. Anti-smooth muscle e. Anti-cardiolipin

Anti Ro

6. Second anti-cardiolipin question with a pregnant lady and recurrent miscarriages I think

anti-cardiolipin

7. Hep B acute active infection. Options were variations of the surface antigens, anti-c and anti-S a. only one option with surface antigen positive

only one option with surface antigen positive

8. Condition treated with anti IL1 a. asthma b. gout

Gout

9. Condition treated with anti IL-4 (pretty sure it was IL4 not 5) a. asthma

Crohns?

10. CART cell therapy is used for?

large B cell lymphoma

11. Which disease is polygenic auto inflammatory a. crohn’s b. ALPS c. graves

Crohn's

12. Some q about confirming anaphylaxis -> Serial mast cell tryptase

at 3 hours and 24 hours

13. Infection with Neisseria, normal C3 and C4. Abnormal classical and alternative pathway tests CH50, AP50. What is the deficiency?

14. Patient with transplant had tacrolimus and mycophenolate, what additional drug should you give to manage acute T cell mediated rejection? a. ciclosporin b. corticosteroids c. azathioprine d. rituximab

corticosteroids

15. Drug used to treat metastatic melanoma

pembrolizumab

1. Man with hypertension and diabetes. No immunosuppression. Had a brain abscess - most likely organism? a. Acinetobacter baumannii b. Cryptococcus neoformans c. Staphylococcus smth? d. Mycobacterium dt e. streptococcus anginosus

2. Inpatient who has been on co-amoxiclav for 5 days. She now has green mucous in stool and abdominal pain, what is most likely cause? a. Clostridium difficile b. Yersinia pestis

c diff

3. 20 y/o IVDU has infective endocarditis. What is the most likely pathogen that you can’t culture using normal lab tests? a. Strep smth b. Another coccus c. Coxiella burnetii d. Cardiobacterium hominis e. Acinetobacter?

Cardiobacterium hominis

4. What is the most specific indicator of an e.coli UTI?

a. Nitrites

5. Someone with falciparum malaria, parasitaemia of 0.5%, fever but generally well. What medication(s) would you give?

a. IV artesunate b. IV quinine c. Artemether and lumefantrine d. Chloroquine

6. What is the recommended procedure to prevent surgical site infection before cutting into the skin, but not near mucousal surfaces? a. Iodine b. Iodine + alcohol c. Chlorhexidine d. Alcohol only e. Chlorhexidine + alcohol

Chlorhexidine + alcohol

7. Test for diagnosing latent TB a. IGRA b. Sputum culture c. Sputum something again

IGRA

8. Candida esophagitis and Candida GLABRATA infection on swab of rectum (NON ALBICANS). What drug to treat? a. Fluconazole b. Clomitrazole c. Miconazole d. Flucytosine e. Anidulafungin

Anidulafungin

9. What can you give for prophylaxis of RSV?

a. Palivizumab

10. Mechanism of resistance towards penicillin of streptococcus pneumoniae a. Changing target b. Effluxing it out c. Inactivating it by making enzyme (2021 repeat)

Changing target

11. Patient with HIV, CD4 count is like 350 something. What complication is he most susceptible at this CD4 count? a. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis b. Kaposi’s and/or herpes zoster infections/candida c. Herpes zoster/candida only d. PCP e. Cryptococcus neoformans

Kaposi’s and/or herpes zoster infections/candida

12. What’s the likely mechanism that HIV has not been cured by antiretroviral drugs? a. It quickly integrates in CD4 T cells in 48-72 hours <- ? b. many changing strains c. failure to produce broad antibodies d. Toxicity of HAART

It quickly integrates in CD4 T cells in 48-72 hours

13. Invasive candidemia test -> a. beta d glucan

a. beta d glucan

14. Man comes back from holiday and now has a fever, rash, low platelets

dengue

1. Man with HIV and not on treatment reveals to sexual health consultant that he has been having unprotected sex with many partners. Consultant asks to contact trace but they did not exchange contacts. a. contact police and tell patient you will b. contact nightclubs where he went and had sex with people so they can warn them c. Dont tell anyone because he has a right to confidentiality d. Tell patient that intentional transmission is a crime but do not take further action as there no identifiable people at risk

Tell patient that intentional transmission is a crime but do not take further action as there no identifiable people at risk

2. A 38 year old man is admitted with decompensated liver failure and gross ascites. Initial investigations show that he has Hepatitis B that has not been previously diagnosed. The following day he deteriorates and becomes encephalopathic. Two days later he dies of overwhelming sepsis. His wife, asks to speak to the FY2 who looked after her husband. She cannot understand how her husband could have developed liver failure as he never drank alcohol. How should you advice the FY2 in terms of disclosure of the man’s Hep B status? (repeat 2021) a. Intentional transmission of hep B is a crime and therefore the information can be disclosed to the wife on the grounds of prevention of serious crime. b. The legal duty of confidentiality can be legally breached in order to prevent serious harm to others c. The legal duty of confidentiality no longer applies after death so his hep b status can be disclosed to his wife d. The man was probably becoming encephalopathic when he refused disclosure to his wife and therefore the legal duty of confidentiality can be lawfully breached on the grounds that he lacked capacity. e. The man cannot be harmed by the disclosure and therefore his wife should be informed of his hepatitis B status

The legal duty of confidentiality can be legally breached in order to prevent serious harm to others

26yo man is brainstem dead and removed himself from ODR 6 years ago. Parents say he would have wanted his organs donated and didn’t know he removed himself previously. Family had recent discussion and he expressed that he would have donated his organs. What should the consultant do? a. He was 20 years old at the time and therefore it doesn’t count anymore b. ODR must be renewed every 5 years so it doesn’t count anymore c. Have specialist staff nurse gather more information from parents in order to best understand his recent wishes d. Explain his organs cannot be donated in this circumstance e. Explain that he is brainstem dead so they can’t take his organs anyway

Have specialist staff nurse gather more information from parents in order to best understand his recent wishes

4. 76 year old dies. Has advance written note stating she wants her brain to be used in research. After her death the son says they are orthodox and hence that you cannot give her brain to research (seems easy but options were very similar and weird) a. As she has written an advanced note, there is a legal obligation to use her brain her research b. As she has written an advanced note, the human tissue act does not apply and her brain can be used for research c. Brain can be used for research despite refusal from family d. Family wishes must be respected e. Anything can be used for research without consent

Brain can be used for research despite refusal from family

17 year old boy, with no known health problems dies suddenly while playing football. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is diagnosed as the cause of death at the coroner’s post-mortem. The pathologist wishes to retain the heart for teaching purposes. The mother agrees but his 26 year old brother is completely opposed to this. What is the legal position regarding organ retention in this situation? (repeat from 2020) a) Following a coroner’s post-mortem, organ or tissue retention is required as evidence for the cause of death b) Organ or tissue retention can lawfully process with the mother’s consent c) Organ or tissue retention cannot lawfully proceed where there is family disagreement d) Organ or tissue retention following a coroner’s autopsy does not require consent e) Organ or tissue retention for the purpose of medical education does not required the family’s consent

Organ or tissue retention can lawfully process with the mother’s consent

PATH 2024 Flashcards

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