The SBA questions on RCEMLearning are designed to support revision and self-directed learning in Emergency Medicine.
While they reflect the style and format of RCEM examinations, performance on these questions should not be interpreted as an indication of success or failure in any official RCEM examination.
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A 47-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with descending paralysis.
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A 19yearold student presents with fever, headache and malaise 24 hours after receiving a MenB vaccine, worried he has developed meningitis.
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A young woman is pre-alerted to the emergency department with increasing drowsiness and confusion.
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Your patients x-ray shows his heart is almost the whole size of his chest. Whats going on? And what are you going to do about it?
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A young man presents with fever, headache, photophobia and vomiting. Can you interpret the findings to diagnose and treat him appropriately before its too late?
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A 5-year-old boy is brought to the ED with a swollen red eye and a raised temperature.
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Following a recent travel to Zambia, a pregnant woman develops high fever, dark urine, and confusion after a seizure; she arrives in the ED acutely unwell with hypoglycaemia.
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A 14-year-old girl presents at the ED after falling into a tree and impaling her cheek with a large twig, just below her right eye, obscuring her vision.
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A 62-year-old patient presents to the ED complaining of shortness of breath. You are asked to prescribe their oxygen.
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A recently widowed 60-year-old female presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Her ECG features diffuse ST elevation.
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A 65-year-old man presents with sudden-onset flashes and floaters in his right eye over two days, maintaining good vision and no pain, prompting assessment for vitreoretinal pathology.
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A patient presents with sudden, painful loss of vision. Can you diagnose the problem and provide emergency management?
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1 in 300 people will experience anaphylaxis at some point in their lives. RCUK anaphylaxis guidelines provide an updated consensus for the recognition and management of anaphylaxis in all age groups.
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A 55-year-old presents with bilateral lower leg pitting oedema and heart failure symptoms. Unremarkable initial investigations lead to digging deeper for the correct diagnosis.
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A young woman, who walks into the ED with Propranolol overdose, suddenly collapses.
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A 68-year-old man with a prior history of MI is pre-alerted to hospital as having had a pre-syncopal episode with an abnormal ECG.
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A 75-year-old gentleman on an anticoagulant, presents with haematemesis to the emergency department, in shock. How will you manage this patient?
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A 58-year-old man presents to your Emergency Department with a headache and right sided vision loss.