Emergency · Procedure

Arm cut requiring assessment - Emergency Department

EasyYear 4 · Curtin style · 10 min + 2 min reading · 4 tasks

2 min reading · 10 min station · reminders at 2 min

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are a medical student on placement in the Emergency Department of a Perth metropolitan hospital.

Francesca Rossi, a 35-year-old cleaner, presents to the ED with a cut on her right arm sustained 1 hour ago when she cut herself with a kitchen knife.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history.
  2. Examine the wound.
  3. Manage the wound and demonstrate its closure on the model.
  4. Discuss aftercare with the patient.
  • The wound closure will be demonstrated on a model, not on the patient.
  • Please verbalise your examination to the examiner; findings will be provided on request.

This is a 10-minute station, with 2 minutes of reading time.

Ask the examiner

Say what you would examine or request, the way you would in the station. Nothing is named until you ask for it.

Whatever the examiner recognises is revealed below. Or pick a numbered item to reveal it blind.

Investigations

Ask for a category the way you would in the station: “Can I have the obs and a set of bloods?”

Examination

Say what you would examine and how; the examiner reports what you would find.