Emergency Cases – KFP public report review 2016-2024 topics in exam

Key Medical Topics in Emergency Medicine Cases

Acute Dental Infection

1. Acute Dental Infection
   • Key Areas:
     • Diagnosing and managing an acute dental infection
     • Emergency management for airway security
   • Common Errors:
     • Avoiding contraindicated medications
     • Failing to prioritize airway management in emergency cases

Remote Healthcare Challenges

2. Management of Hyperthermia in a Remote Setting
   • Key Topics:
     • Likely diagnosis
     • Investigations
     • Lifestyle advice for prevention
   • Common Errors:
     • Inadequate consideration of remote healthcare delivery challenges
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Tailor management and preventive advice to remote settings, considering local healthcare resources

Acute Multisystem Symptoms

3. Acute Presentation in Emergency with Multisystem Symptoms
   • Key Topics:
     • Differential diagnosis
     • Immediate investigations
     • Management actions
   • Common Errors:
     • Inadequate management of clinical acuity
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Immediate and specific management actions for acute presentations, understanding clinical urgency

Electrolyte Imbalance

4. Deranged Magnesium Levels in an Older Female
   • Key Topics:
     • Contributing factors
     • Management strategies
     • Further investigations
   • Common Errors:
     • Contributing factors provided were incongruent to the case
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Ensure contributing factors and management strategies are relevant to the specific case context

Animal Bite Management

5. Management of an Infected Animal Bite
   • Key Topics:
     • Examination findings for animal bites
     • Management without hospital transfer
   • Common Errors:
     • Overlooking key examination findings and implications of delayed presentation
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Recognition of complications associated with animal bites and addressing rural healthcare delivery challenges

Severe Abdominal Pain

6. Severe Abdominal Pain
   • Key Topics:
     • Differential diagnoses
     • Immediate management
     • Transfer protocols
   • Common Errors:
     • Lack of specificity in diagnosing and managing severe abdominal pain
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Clear identification of likely diagnoses based on clinical presentation and immediate management steps to stabilize the patient for transfer

Anaphylactic Shock in a Rural Setting

7. Anaphylactic Shock in a Rural Setting
   • Key Topics:
     • Diagnosis and management of anaphylactic shock
     • Emergency medication dosages
   • Common Errors:
     • Misinterpretation of setting and urgency
     • Incorrect emergency medication management
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Strengthen emergency response strategies, including medication dosages and adjustments for remote settings

Emergency Medicine for Older Patients

8. Emergency Medicine – Older Female with Collapse
   • Key Topics:
     • Differential diagnosis for collapse in an older patient
     • Initial investigations relevant to past medical history and medication use
   • Common Errors:
     • Difficulty in correlating medical history and current symptoms
     • Choosing broad or irrelevant initial investigations
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Develop a targeted approach to differential diagnosis in older patients, ensuring initial investigations are directly relevant to the most likely underlying causes

Severe Abdominal Pain in a Diabetic Patient

9. Severe Abdominal Pain in a Diabetic Patient
   • Key Topics:
     • Differential diagnoses
     • Immediate management
     • Addressing chronic conditions
   • Common Errors:
     • Not recognizing the urgency of the patient’s presentation
     • Focusing on long-term management of alcohol use instead of immediate acute care needs
   • Improvement Areas:
     • Improve triage skills to recognize acute emergencies and provide specific, immediate management steps

Facial Trauma

10. Facial Trauma
    • Key Topics:
      • Assessing and managing facial trauma
    • Common Errors:
      • Providing a specific diagnosis and targeted management steps for facial trauma
      • Avoiding broad or generic answers

Snake Bite

11. Snake Bite
    • Key Topics:
      • First aid and management of a snake bite
    • Common Errors:
      • Specifying immediate and appropriate onsite management upon medical assessment
      • Monitoring for signs of envenomation

Penetrating Finger Injury

12. Penetrating Finger Injury
    • Key Topics:
      • Immediate management and potential complications of a penetrating injury to the distal phalanx
    • Common Errors:
      • Specifying analgesia type and considering a broad range of complications, not just infections

Leaking Aortic Aneurysm

13. Leaking Aortic Aneurysm
    • Key Topics:
      • Identification and management of a leaking aortic aneurysm
      • Differentiating from a ruptured aneurysm
    • Common Errors:
      • Specifying the urgency and details of the transfer to higher-level care

Forearm Fracture in a Child

14. Forearm Fracture in a Child
    • Key Topics:
      • Severity of the fracture
      • Urgent orthopedic referral
      • Adequate analgesia and neurovascular assessments
    • Common Errors:
      • Underestimating the severity of the fracture
      • Overlooking the need for adequate analgesia and neurovascular assessments

Summary by Key Medical Topics:

Acute Dental Infection:

1. Acute Dental Infection

Remote Healthcare Challenges:

2. Management of Hyperthermia in a Remote Setting

Acute Multisystem Symptoms:

3. Acute Presentation in Emergency with Multisystem Symptoms

Electrolyte Imbalance:

4. Deranged Magnesium Levels in an Older Female

Animal Bite Management:

5. Management of an Infected Animal Bite

Severe Abdominal Pain:

6. Severe Abdominal Pain
7. Severe Abdominal Pain in a Diabetic Patient

Anaphylactic Shock:

7. Anaphylactic Shock in a Rural Setting

Emergency Medicine for Older Patients:

8. Emergency Medicine – Older Female with Collapse

Facial Trauma:

10. Facial Trauma

Snake Bite:

11. Snake Bite

Penetrating Finger Injury:

12. Penetrating Finger Injury

Leaking Aortic Aneurysm:

13. Leaking Aortic Aneurysm

Forearm Fracture:

14. Forearm Fracture in a Child