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CXR Resources
CT head Resources
AXR Resources
AXR Interpretation How to read an AXR
Written Examination Resources
Cramming Resources For the weeks leading up to the Written
New format EMQ and SAQ exam questions
For older format exam questions, please see below:
ABG Resources
How To Interpret ABG’s How to read an ABG. Make your own proforma and follow it for every ABG. Do ABG’s again, and again, and again, and again. Learn your formulae and practice the arithmetic. You do get it in the end.
ABG VAQ’s Every ABG VAQ known to man. You should have done each one at least once. You should have done each ACEM ABG at least three times.
Respiratory acidosis fact sheet
Respiratory alkalosis fact sheet
Vascular
Fact Sheets
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Vascular SAQ’s
Vascular VAQ’s
There are very few vascular MCQ’s, which is nice.
Vascular VAQ’s
Trauma
Fact Sheets
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Head injury fact sheet Know your NEXUS / Canadian CT criteria
Trauma MCQ’s
Trauma SAQ’s
Trauma VAQ’s are found in the other topic pages, depending on the system injured.
Toxicology
Fact Sheets
Toxicology is a mammoth topic and comes up all the time. You need to master it to succeed. Consider it your nemesis.
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Alcohol and toxic alcohols fact sheet
Calcium antagonist OD fact sheet
Cholinergic anticholinergic fact sheet
General toxicology fact sheet Includes decontamination and antidote info
Hydrocarbon poisoning fact sheet
Methaemoglobinaemia fact sheet
NMS vs EPSE vs SS vs MH fact sheet Guess the abbreviations!
Organophosphate poisoning fact sheet
Paracetamol OD fact sheet VITAL KNOWLEDGE
Strychnine poisoning fact sheet
Tricyclic antidepressant OD fact sheet VITAL KNOWLEDGE
For envenomations: see environmental.
Toxicology MCQ’s
Toxicology SAQ’s
Toxicology VAQ’s
Toxicology VAQ’s
Know your QTc and QRS prolongers. Know the criteria for diagnosing tricyclic antidepressant overdose based on ECG findings. Remember sodium bicarbonate.
Resuscitation
Fact Sheets
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to know all of the below inside out.
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Resuscitation SAQ’s
Clearly there are resuscitation MCQ’s and VAQ’s, but they tend to be related to another topic and hence are found there.
Respiratory
Respiratory VAQ’s
The document above includes mostly CXR’s. For the ABG’s, see the Written Examination Resources section.
Renal and Urology
Fact Sheets
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Renal and Urology MCQ’s
Renal and Urology SAQ’s
Renal and Urology VAQ’s
Renal and Urology VAQ’s
The College kindly spares us the trauma of having to complete O+G VAQ’s, but unfortunately the same can’t be said for Urology…
PreHospital and Disaster
Fact Sheets
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Patient Retrieval and Transport
PreHospital and Disaster SAQ’s
There are prehospital MCQ’s, but they’re usually about triage of casualties.
I don’t have any VAQ’s – theoretically they could show you a picture of a mushroom cloud and ask how quickly you would run in the opposite direction…
Paediatrics
Fact Sheets
Knowing your Paeds is vital. There isn’t a week dedicated to Paeds in the Auckland study timetable – be sure to cover relevant Paeds topics each week or you will miss a big chunk of the syllabus.
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Fever in Children Very important
Paediatric Gastroenteritis Know your rehydration
Paediatric and Neonatal Resus Very important
Paediatrics MCQ’s
Paediatrics SAQ’s
I haven’t split the Paediatric VAQ’s from the adult – pure laziness, I know.
Orthopaedics
Fact Sheets
You don’t need to know the classification of fractures in as much detail as is found in these fact sheets. The exceptions to this are: Pelvic fractures (know the classification and treatment eg. when to use interventional radiology and when to go to theatre), Paediatric orthopaedic trauma (understand Salter-Harris), Shoulder dislocation (they love reduction techniques and procedural sedation), Red joint(how do you interpret as aspirate?) and the limping child.
NB. Facts Sheets are designed to be viewed on Word and edited by yourself to suit your needs. They may open looking strange on the default iPad or iPhone viewer, and I suggest you open them in Word on those devices as they will then open normally.
Orthopaedics SAQ’s
Orthopaedics VAQ’s
Orthopaedics VAQ’s
It’s describe, describe, describe. Concisely describe comminution, angulation, displacement, rotation, open/closed, presence/lack of foreign bodies…
Improving care in ED 