Ucem osce scenario 2017.1

LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog After years of preparation, extensive reading, sleepless nights, marriage breakdowns and caffeine – your week of being show ponies has arrived as the F.UCEM examinations are upon us. Giving hope to those who pray to the Utopian FSM we have managed to locate and leak one of the OSCE examination questions for the upcoming exams – hope it helps. UCEM OSCE SCENARIO You are the ED Consultant in charge of a tertiary hospital ED You are approached by the red team night registrar to review a patient with a lower limb ulcer.  The patient believes the ulcer is secondary to either a white tail spider bite or a flare up of their non-pathological lyme disease. Having consulted Dr Google on alternate therapies not approved in Utopia, they would like you to write a letter to approve their ongoing care in a private clinic in Sweden. Next in the queue is the yellow team night registrar who presents a well known heroin addict with invading thyroid cancer. In their caffeine depleted state they mixed up the naloxone and gave 400mg of rocuronium. Helpfully they have pulled up the last CT scan which shows near complete obstruction below the vocal cords with the tumour extending below the mediastinum. On requesting the sugammadex the pharmacist presents you with five pieces of paperwork including a signature required from the head of the de...
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