Pathology EMQ template.

Name: Elliott Rees

Candidate number:

Theme: Potassium Handling

OPTION LIST

A	Hyperkalaemia	I	Vomiting
B	Hypokalaemia	J	Diabetic ketoacidosis
C	Hypernatraemia	K	Renal tubular acidosis
D	Hyponatraemia	L
E	Addisons	M
F	Conns	N
G	Cushings	O
H	Diarrhoea	P

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

1. United States President John F. Kennedy was one of the best-known people to suffer with this.

2. The most dangerous electrolyte abnormality. The most common cause of which is haemolysis

3. Features include: muscle weakness, nephrocalcinosis, rickets and stunted growth

4. Often, the problem is detected during screening blood tests for a medical disorder, or it only comes to medical attention after complications have developed, such as cardiac arrhythmia or sudden death.

5. When mild is often without symptoms, although it may cause a small elevation of blood pressure, and can occasionally provoke cardiac arrhythmias.

ANSWERS

1. E

2. A

3. K

4. A

5. BE