Adult Health Cases

 

Cases are designed to identify and test key competencies. Each case will include questions on diagnosis, clinical features of key illnesses, causes and risk factors, treatments, and couse and consequences.

 

Cardiovascular

  • rapid, irregular heart rate flag
  • acute coronary syndrome
  • congestive heart failure
  • dyslpidemia flag

Renal

  • volume status
  • hypercalcemia
  • hyperkalemia
  • hypernatremia
  • hypokalemia
  • hyponatremia
  • hypocalcemia
  • acute kidney failure
  • chronic kidney disease

 

Gastrointestinal

  • upper GI bleed
  • inflammatory bowel disease

Respiratory

  • shortness of breath
  • productive cough
  • pleural effusion
  • acute exacerbation of COPD
  • acute asthma
  • pulmonary embolism

 

Neurological

Endocrine

  • diabetic ketoacidosis

Hematological

  • microcytic anemia
  • low platelets

Genitourinary

  • urinary retention in a man

Dermatological

  • raised rash