Common Topics #

Trauma #

• Blunt trauma - abdomen
• Chest trauma
• Chest wall and contents - injury
• Crush injury - pelvis
• Haematuria following blunt trauma
• ITU - indications for managing a surgical patient
• ITU - indications for nursing a patient in
• Missile injury - limb: neurovascular bundle intact
• Stab injury - trunk

General Surgery #

Abdominal Surgery #

• Abdominal TB
• CBD Stone - Modern Management
• Cholecystitis - Aetiology and Diagnosis
• Large Bowel Obstruction - Malignant, Management of
• Low Urine Output 24 Hours After Major Abdominal Surgery
• Pancreatitis - Acute, Complications
• Sigmoid Volvulus

Hernias #

• Femoral Hernia - Strangulated
• Incisional Hernias - Factors That Influence the Development
• Inguinal Hernia Repair - Laparoscopic Method

Neck Surgery #

• Anterior Triangle of the Neck - Lump In
• Hypotension - Acute Occurring After 3 Days of Block Dissection of the Neck
• Parotid Area - Differential Diagnosis of Lump In
• Parotidectomy Consent
• Submandibular Salivary Gland Swelling
• Thyroglossal Tract Anomaly

Breast & Endocrine Surgery #

• Lumps in the Breast
• Solitary Thyroid Nodule
• Thyroid - Clinically Solitary Nodule
• Thyroid - Medullary Carcinoma
• Thyroid Carcinoma Diagnosis
• Thyroidectomy Complications

Urological Surgery #

• Circumcision
• Scrotal Swelling in the Adult
• Torsion of the Testis

Wound and Skin Management #

• Burns - Management
• Skin Defects Management
• Ulceration of Finger - One Hand
• Wound Healing - Factors That Delay
• Wound Infection - Prevention

Trauma and Emergency Surgery #

• Fall on Outstretched Hand
• Ventilation - Assisted Role in the Management of Major Trauma

Surgical Techniques and Instruments #

• Biopsy - Techniques with Their Indications and Limitations
• Diathermy
• Diathermy - Complications in Open Surgery
• Laparoscopy in General Surgery
• Local Anaesthesia - Techniques Used
• Operating Theatre - Preventing Inadvertent Harm to the Patient
• OT - Preparation of Surgical Instruments
• Stents
• RCT - Principles, Design

Surgical Management and Considerations #

• Audit - Surgical
• Blood - Minimizing the Use of Bank Blood for Major Surgery
• Computers in Surgery - Role of
• Day Case Surgery - AD/DA
• Ethical Committee - Composition and Function
• MRSA - Steps to Be Taken in Managing in the Ward
• Surgical Operation - Factors Contributing to a Shorter Hospital Stay

Postoperative Care #

• Haemorrhage
• Post-Op Complications
• Pyrexia - Post-Op

Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Issues #

• Dysphagia - Diagnosis and Causes
• Perianal Pain - Diagnosis and Management
• Rectal Bleeding - Fresh

Miscellaneous #

• CTS
• HIV/HBV Infection Precautions When Operating On
• Immunosuppressive Therapy
• Radioisotope Bone Scanning - Diagnostic Uses
• Salivary Calculi
• Ulnar Nerve Injury - Causes and Clinical Features
• Cardiac Problem Assessment in a Patient Needing Major Surgery

GI Surgery #

• Anal fissure
• Anal pain in adults
• Anastomotic breakdown - GI - factors affecting
• Bowel diseases - inflammatory, irritable
• Colonic diverticular disease
• Crohn’s disease GI tract manifestations
• Gastrointestinal bleeding - methods of localizing
• GI haemorrhage - arrest of
• GORD
• Haematemesis
• Pancreatic neoplasms - non-endocrine presentation
• Pancreatitis - acute, assessment of severity

GU Surgery #

• Haematuria
• Prostate cancer - presentation
• Renal - unilateral hydronephrosis / hydroureter
• Ureter in solitary kidney - management of obstruction
• Urethra - rupture of the membranous urethra
• Urethral catheterization - long-term sequelae
• Urinary incontinence - mechanisms
• Urinary retention - acute
• Urological investigation - ultrasound in
• Urological investigations - place for ultrasound
• Undescended testis

Neurosurgery #

• Cerebral metastases
• EDH
• Head injury after RTA

Oncosurgery #

• Basal cell carcinoma
• Breast cancer - adjuvant therapy
• Breast cancer - female
• Breast cancer - management of malignant pleural effusions
• Hypercalcaemia associated with malignant disease
• In situ cancer - definition and discussion of examples
• Malignant melanoma
• Radiotherapy for cancer - complications
• Rectal cancer - palliative treatment
• Teratoma of the testis
• Tongue and cheek - leukoplakia

Orthopedic Surgery #

• Bone metastases - diagnosis of
• Closed fracture
• Colles fracture
• Complicated femoral fracture
• Compound complicated fracture
• Femoral fracture proximal 1/3 in the elderly
• Fracture - methods of internal fixation
• Fracture in the lower limb - vascular complications
• Joint replacement - total - prevention of complications
• Knee joint - penetrating injury
• Open midshaft fracture of the tibia
• Paget’s disease of the bone
• Pyogenic arthritis
• Radial fracture - distal
• Shoulder - acute dislocation
• Shoulder anterior dislocation
• Spinal injury - T/L junction
• Supracondylar fracture
• Supracondylar fracture of the humerus in children
• Thoracolumbar spinal injury

Pediatric Surgery #

• Airway obstruction - acute in a child
• CDH in children
• CTEV
• DDH (CDH)
• Inguinal hernia in a 9-month-old boy
• Pyloric stenosis - congenital hypertrophic
• Vomiting - projectile

Plastic and Thoracic Surgery #

• Wounds involving significant loss of skin
• Pneumothorax - spontaneous

Vascular Surgery #

• AAA surgery - common major perioperative complications
• Amputation of lower limb
• Angioplasty
• Arterial insufficiency
• Varicose veins of the lower limb
• Cervical rib
• Duplex scan - role in surgery
• DVT - complications of
• False aneurysm
• Intermittent claudication
• Ischaemic leg
• Leg ulcers - diagnosis and assessment excluding treatment
• Lower limb ischaemia
• Lower limb - chronic unilateral swelling
• PVD
• Trap gun injury - popliteal artery damage
• Varicose veins
• Vascular surgery (peripheral) thrombolysis
• Venous ulcer of the lower limb