Here are the practice questions from this week’s written exam practice at The Alfred ICU, with recommended reading from Lifeinthefastlane.com’s Critical Care Compendium:
Q1.
Regarding the elderly in ICU:
- Define frailty (10%)
- What are the prognostic implications of frailty in the ICU? (20%)
- List the pathophysiological changes that occur in the elderly (70%)
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/the-elderly-and-critical-care/
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/frailty/
Q2.
Describe your approach to the management of a 12 year-old male who is brought in by ambulance with CPR in progress following a drowning episode in a lake in winter. He is in PEA and has a rectal temperature of 28C.
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/hypothermia/
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/drowning/
Q3.
- Define Multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) (20%)
- List 2 scoring systems that can be used to quantify severity of MODS (10%)
- Outline the pathophysiology of MODS (70%)
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/multi-organ-dysfunction-syndrome-mods/
You can access all the previous practice questions since 2014 here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ta8IvVaVtc5Il7-kJwj6qKGu54OmifJGRUWCXud8dY/edit
See this link on INTENSIVE for exam resources:
https://intensiveblog.com/resources/#3