📚 VitalSaver Quiz Mode

A 55-year-old man arrives by EMS with sudden crushing chest pain. Work through initial assessment, reperfusion strategy, and the complication that follows it.

A 72-year-old woman with sudden right-sided weakness and slurred speech. Establish the time of onset, decide on thrombolysis and thrombectomy, and manage the first 24 hours.

A 68-year-old man on a sulfonylurea is found at home, sluggish and drenched in sweat. Work through the approach to altered mental status, the treatment, and why this patient cannot simply go home.

A 24-year-old collapses during August football practice and arrives confused and burning hot. Recognize exertional heat stroke, cool aggressively, and manage what comes after.

A 78-year-old woman with several days of cough and fever arrives somnolent and tachypneic. Recognize sepsis, run the resuscitation bundle, and choose empiric therapy.

A 30-year-old woman develops generalized urticaria, respiratory distress and hypotension after a meal. Work through first-line treatment, positioning and fluids, the refractory case, and the discharge plan.

A 22-year-old man with type 1 diabetes arrives vomiting, with abdominal pain and a falling level of consciousness. Get the order of fluid, potassium and insulin right, and avoid the classic traps.

A patient is somnolent and hypoventilating in the PACU. Separate opioid effect from residual neuromuscular blockade, use the antagonists properly, and know what to monitor.

A patient becomes acutely dyspneic during a red cell transfusion. Learn the one universal first step, then separate two reactions whose treatments point in opposite directions.

A hemodialysis patient who missed a session presents weak and unwell. Recognize the ECG, then work through the three steps in order: stabilize the membrane, shift the potassium, remove it from the body.

Read the ventilator's graphics — the airway pressure and flow curves — to identify the mode, rising airway resistance, falling compliance, circuit problems and auto-PEEP. The waveform tells you before the numeric alarm does.