Cardiovascular practice questions
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See all in the bankA 76-year-old man reports that for three months he has felt light-headed and has twice nearly fainted walking up the hill to the shops, together with a tight fe…
Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old man who injects heroin presents with two weeks of fevers, sweats, a cough and pleuritic chest pain on both sides. His temperature is 39.2 °C, puls…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 52-year-old Aboriginal woman from a community in Cape York presents with a week of palpitations and breathlessness on walking to the store. She had several ep…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old man is brought in by his wife after his third collapse in a month. Each time he has been sitting watching television, has suddenly gone grey and s…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman is admitted with ongoing lower gastrointestinal bleeding and a haemoglobin concentration of 72 g/L (reference range 115–155). She is receivi…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 52-year-old man attends for a health assessment. He does not smoke, has no diabetes, chronic kidney disease or established cardiovascular disease, and his fat…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old man with chronic kidney disease presents with weakness after spironolactone was added to his medicines. His serum potassium is 7.0 mmol/L (3.5–5.2…
Clinical rotations · common
A 56-year-old man develops sharp central chest pain 36 hours after an uncomplicated inferior myocardial infarction. The pain is worse when he lies flat or takes…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 64-year-old man is recovering in hospital four days after an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary interventi…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 71-year-old man presents with three days of dyspnoea. CT pulmonary angiography shows bilateral pulmonary emboli and right ventricular enlargement; his blood p…
Clinical rotations · common
A 42-year-old woman has a second proximal deep vein thrombosis while taking rivaroxaban as prescribed. She has no interacting medicines, normal renal function a…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old man with metastatic oesophageal cancer develops a symptomatic proximal deep vein thrombosis. He completed treatment for melaena from the tumour tw…
Clinical rotations · middle twist