Here are the practice questions from today’s written exam practice session at The Alfred ICU, with recommended reading from Lifeinthefastlane.com’s Critical Care Compendium:
Q1.
Regarding preoxygenation for emergency intubation:
a) Outline the rationale and physiological basis for preoxygenation (40%)
b) Discuss the challenges faced when preoxygenating critically ill patients in the intensive care unit and the different approaches that can be used to achieve preoxygenation (60%)
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Q2.
Regarding antibiotics:
a) What are the pros and cons of using minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to guide antimicrobial therapy (50%)
b) For each of the following antibiotics state how dosing differs in a critically ill patient with septic shock (with unknown source) compared to appropriate dosing in a non-critically ill patient. Assume normal renal function in both patients. (50%)
- piperacillin/tazobactam
- initial dose of gentamicin
- initial dose of vancomycin
- flucloxacillin
- ceftriaxone
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Q3.
Regarding paracetamol overdose:
- Describe the biochemical mechanism that results in paracetamol-induced hepatoxicity (30%)
- List the specific indications for N-acetylcysteine therapy following a paracetamol overdose (35%)
- Describe the King’s College Criteria for liver transplant following paracetamol overdose (35%)
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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
Q 2 I think your Learn More Here links are out. Perhaps:
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/minimum-inhibitory-concentration-mic/
and
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/antimicrobial-kill-characteristics/
instead
Thanks!
Now fixed 🙂
Chris