Clinical Update July 2009 CME Questions

Answer True or False to the following questions. Answers at the bottom of the July 2009 Update.

1) In refractory septic shock there is no clear evidence that steroids reduce mortality.

2) Noradrenaline (norepinephrine) may cause cerebral vasodilation by reducing minute ventilation

3) Intravenous morphine provides more effective analgesia to children than nebulised fentanyl

4) Paediatric non-femoral central venous catheter tips should be sited at the level of the carina

5) Following fibrinolysis for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, transferring the patient for urgent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within six hours may improve outcome compared with delayed cardiac catheterisation.