Acute Care
7 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 17-year-old boy returns to the emergency department 18 hours after a below-knee plaster cast was applied for an undisplaced fracture of the distal tibia. He h…
Pre-internship · common
A 74-year-old woman is on day 4 after an open right hemicolectomy. Sodium chloride 0.9% 1 L eight-hourly, charted in the emergency department before her operati…
Pre-internship · common
You are the intern asked to collect a group and hold sample from a 68-year-old man before an elective hip replacement. When you arrive the ward clerk hands you…
Pre-internship · common
A 78-year-old woman is admitted overnight for observation after a mechanical fall. She is eating and drinking, takes only oral medications, and no intravenous t…
Pre-internship · common
A 24-year-old man is brought in by ambulance after his motorcycle struck a guardrail. His left leg is partly amputated below the knee and bright blood is wellin…
Pre-internship · common
A 71-year-old woman who speaks only Vietnamese is ready to leave the emergency department after chest pain with normal troponin results. She is to start a new m…
Pre-internship · common
A 76-year-old man taking ramipril and spironolactone attends with three days of vomiting and increasing lethargy. He is drowsy but rousable. Pulse is 42/min and…
Pre-internship · common