Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat practice questions

A 29-year-old woman presents with three days of worsening unilateral throat pain, fever and difficulty swallowing. She cannot open her mouth fully, her voice is…

A 72-year-old man with atrial fibrillation notices sudden, profound loss of vision in his right eye while eating breakfast. There is no pain, headache or preced…

A 72-year-old woman with hypertension reports three episodes in the past week in which the vision in her right eye became obscured from the top down, each lasti…

A 78-year-old woman presents with sudden painless loss of vision in her right eye on waking this morning. For the past three weeks she has had a right-sided hea…

A 66-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department at 9 pm with severe right-sided headache, nausea and repeated vomiting that began while she was watch…

A 48-year-old man who migrated from southern China ten years ago presents with six weeks of a blocked sensation and reduced hearing in the right ear. On several…

A 23-year-old man presents with a five-day history of worsening sore throat, and swallowing has become so painful that he is spitting his saliva into a cup. His…

A 46-year-old man notices sudden hearing loss in his left ear on waking 48 hours ago. He has no pain, discharge or recent upper respiratory infection, and otosc…

A 15-year-old boy has six months of recurrent, predominantly right-sided epistaxis and progressive right nasal obstruction. He has no fever or facial pain, and…

A 59-year-old man presents with eight hours of continuous vertigo, vomiting and difficulty walking. He has spontaneous right-beating nystagmus and no hearing lo…

A 14-month-old child has fever and irritability after several days of coryza. The child is pulling at the right ear and wakes repeatedly overnight. Otoscopy sho…

A 64-year-old woman develops sudden, profound painless loss of vision in her left eye 90 minutes before assessment. The left pupil has a relative afferent pupil…