Clinical decision-making review for candidates sitting the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I, organised across the MCC clinical domains and the CanMEDS roles.
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Acute surgical abdomen, trauma primary survey and common emergency-department presentations.
74 total questions
Card #1
What are the steps of the ABCDE primary survey in trauma?
Card #2
Where does the pain of acute appendicitis classically migrate to?
Card #3
What is Murphy's sign and what does it suggest?
1. A trauma patient has a distended neck, tracheal deviation, absent breath sounds on one side and hypotension. What is the immediate management?
2. Migratory right-lower-quadrant pain, anorexia and low-grade fever in a young adult most suggests:
3. In the ABCDE approach, controlling major external haemorrhage belongs to which step?
1. The trauma primary survey follows the sequence airway, breathing, ___, disability and exposure.
2. Arrest of inspiration on right-upper-quadrant palpation is called ___ sign and suggests cholecystitis.
3. Free air under the diaphragm on an erect film indicates perforation of a ___ viscus.
