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Acute Medicine SCE Practice Questions - Specialty Certificate Examination in Acute Medicine Exam

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Prepare with the Acute Medicine SCE Practice Questions - Specialty Certificate Examination in Acute Medicine Exam practice quiz. This question bank includes 100 questions covering patient, pain, diagnosis, fever, and treatment. Use it to review important concepts, identify knowledge gaps, and build confidence for the related exam, course, or assessment.

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Question 1
A patient receiving chemotherapy presents with temperature 38.4 C, rigors and neutrophils 0.3 x 10^9/L. What is the most appropriate immediate management?
Give broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics within 1 hour after blood cultures if this does not delay treatment
Wait for the blood culture result before starting antibiotics
Give oral antibiotics and discharge if the patient looks well
Arrange oncology clinic review within 48 hours
Question 2
A 70-year-old with metastatic prostate cancer develops new severe thoracic back pain, bilateral leg weakness and urinary retention. What is the key next step?
Start simple analgesia and arrange routine outpatient MRI
Treat as suspected metastatic spinal cord compression with urgent MRI and immediate corticosteroid discussion
Request lumbar puncture to exclude infection first
Reassure because urinary retention is common with opioids
Question 3
A patient with aggressive lymphoma develops rising potassium, phosphate and urate after starting chemotherapy. Which diagnosis best explains this pattern?
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
Tumour lysis syndrome
Adrenal crisis
Question 4
A patient with sickle cell disease presents with fever, hypoxia, chest pain and a new pulmonary infiltrate. What is the best working diagnosis?
Uncomplicated painful crisis suitable for oral analgesia alone
Pulmonary oedema from chronic heart failure
Viral pleurisy with no need for admission
Acute chest syndrome requiring oxygen, antibiotics, analgesia and haematology escalation
Question 5
A frail patient with advanced cancer is dying despite treatment and has noisy respiratory secretions causing family distress. Which prescribing approach is most appropriate?
Use anticipatory end-of-life medicines with explanation that secretion treatment may reduce noise but not restore swallowing
Start intravenous fluids because secretions prove dehydration
Prescribe high-dose antibiotics as the default intervention
Avoid discussing dying because it may remove hope

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Acute Medicine SCE Practice Questions - Specialty Certificate Examination in Acute Medicine Exam

This practice set contains 100 questions from the matching question bank and focuses on patient, pain, diagnosis, fever, and treatment. Work through each question carefully, review the provided solutions, and revisit topics that need more study before your next attempt.

This is an independent study resource intended for practice and review; it is not an official examination or an endorsement by any organization named in the title.

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