Surgery and Perioperative Care practice questions

A 13-year-old boy with obesity has had aching pain in his left knee for three weeks. He suddenly develops severe groin pain while rising from a chair and cannot…

A 79-year-old woman falls at home and develops groin pain. Pelvic and hip radiographs show no fracture, but after analgesia she still cannot take four steps and…

A 45-year-old man presents after four days of worsening right lower quadrant pain, fever and anorexia. Examination finds a tender, relatively fixed mass in the…

A 24-year-old woman presents with 12 hours of abdominal pain, nausea and anorexia. The pain began around the umbilicus and is now most severe in the right iliac…

A 66-year-old man is five days after an ultra-low anterior resection for rectal cancer and had initially been recovering well. Overnight he developed an irregul…

A 22-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of lower abdominal pain that began around the umbilicus and is now most marked on the rig…