Dr. Murphy's Question of the week

Starting April 2006 Education Director Dr. Patti Murphy posted weekly "Question of the Week" for all staff and residents during academic year to help with OR teaching. As of June 2011 Dr. Patti Murphy has stepped down from the role of Director of Education. Dr. Persaud have assumed all Education related duties.
These questions may be used by Faculty and Residents for discussions in the Operating Room.


Acromegaly - April 2010
HIT - February 2010
Tranexamic Acid - January 2010
Needle Stick Injury - January 2010
Hemoptysis - A 73 year old woman comes urgently to the operating room with an acute abdomen. ... (January 2010)
SvO2 - Mixed Venous O2 ... (June 2009)
Multiple Myeloma - A 65 year old man with multiple myeloma (MM) is booked for an urgent posterior decompression/ stabilization of his thoracic spine ... (June 2009)
Dantrolene - how much do you know about it ...
Asystole - ... and then you could not hear pulse oxymeter 'beep-beep-beep' ...
ETT Pilot Balloon mishap - tis the day in OR when you should have stayed home in bed ...
Line isolation monitor - just what kind of furry purple marsupial LIM is?
AICD - A 35 year old man is booked as an urgent femoral embolectomy. He has EF of 20% and AICD ...
GA for Laryngeal Cancer - You are in Kampala, Uganda ... enough said ...
Carcinoid - A 48 year old woman is scheduled for a partial hepatic resection for a metastasis from gastro-intestinal carcinoid ...
Octaplex - A 70 year old patient is booked to come to the OR for an ORIF of a compound femoral fracture. He has a history of atrial fibrillation, and is on coumadin...  Nifty Octaplex Info.
Trisomy 21 - ...
Smoking cessation - ...
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome - ...
Sickle cell - in a patient going for TKR ...
Hypermagnesemia - in a parturient ...
Inhaled CO2 - You are anesthetizing a 48-year old man for an anterior cervical discectomy... See high inspired CO2 ...
Thoracic Stabbing - part 1. A 19 year old male is a victim of a single stab wound to his chest ...
Thoracic Stabbing - part 2. Try to answer part 1 first before opening part 2.
Adult CHD - A 20 year old man presents in your preop clinic for a FESS procedure. He was born with Kartagener�s Syndrome. Part 1 ...
Adult CHD - part 2 ...
Marfan's Syndrome - parturient with Marfan's syndrome ...
Open Eye - vicious dog attack results in an 'Open Eye' patient ...
Burn - Burn patient in ER, Fall 2008. For your reading pleasure - Anaesthesia for patients with burns injuries - review in Current Anaesthesia & Critical Care (2002) 13, 70-75, posted by Dr. Ilia Charapov)

2007-2008 questions

2006-2007 questions