Arab Board Emergency Medicine Clinical Exam case studies
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The Arab Board of Health Specializations Emergency Medicine Clinical Examination is the practice-based component of specialty certification in emergency medicine, intended for physicians who have completed residency training in the field and are ready to be assessed as consultant-level practitioners. It is a summative, examiner-observed assessment: candidates move through a circuit of stations built around simulated patient encounters, resuscitation scenarios, procedural and skills tasks, structured oral case discussions with examiners, and interpretation of ECGs, radiographs, ultrasound images and laboratory data, together with communication and professionalism encounters. The Arab Board Emergency Medicine Clinical Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 5,229 words.
1Post-arrest STEMI with a 45-minute road transfer and no on-site catheter laboratory
A 58-year-old man collapsed at a gym at 01:40. Bystanders started CPR within two minutes and an on-site AED delivered two shocks.
984 words, about 5 min2Apixaban-associated traumatic brain injury with an expanding contusion and a three-hour road transfer
A 74-year-old woman on apixaban 5 mg twice daily for atrial fibrillation falls down three steps onto a tiled floor. She did not lose consciousness but has vomited twice.
1,049 words, about 5 min3Tricyclic overdose with a wide QRS and shock refractory to bicarbonate
A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after swallowing "about 50" amitriptyline 25 mg tablets following an argument. He is drowsy but rousable, GCS 13, pupils 5 mm and reactive, skin dry, heart rate 128, blood pressure 86/50 mmHg, temperature 37.4 °C.
1,064 words, about 5 min4Cerebral oedema during paediatric diabetic ketoacidosis in a four-year-old
A 4-year-old girl, 16 kg, is brought in with three days of vomiting, polyuria and lethargy. She has never been diagnosed with diabetes.
1,068 words, about 5 min5Postpartum haemorrhage at a midwife-led unit with four units of blood and no interventional radiology
A 31-year-old woman, G2P1, delivers a 3.9 kg baby spontaneously at a midwife-led unit 40 minutes from the nearest obstetric theatre. The third stage is prolonged and the placenta is delivered by controlled cord traction.
1,064 words, about 5 min