OSCE: actor and procedure stations
22 cases, 14 of them in the Core.
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Every answer in OSCE: actor and procedure stations has these
- Say who you are, check who you are talking to, and ask what they already know.
- Use plain words and real numbers, then stop and let the person react.
- For procedures: consent, monitoring and asepsis first; confirm placement by sight or a second test.
- Close every station with a written record, a named contact and a follow-up plan.
The cases
- Telling a wife her husband died during ruptured aneurysm repair Core
- Disclosing a syringe swap: paralysed before she was asleep Core
- Awareness after general anaesthesia for emergency caesarean
- Broken front tooth after a difficult intubation
- Jehovah's Witness refusing blood before revision hip Core
- Consent for a labour epidural Core
- Capacity and refusal of urgent laparotomy Core
- Family history of malignant hyperthermia before hernia repair Core
- Cancelling surgery: weekly GLP-1 agonist and a fried breakfast
- Numb, weak hand the day after a supraclavicular block
- Counselling for awake intubation after a previous failed intubation
- Ventilation and ceiling of care before emergency laparotomy in severe COPD Core
- Refusing the recommended spinal for TURP
- Failed epidural and an angry patient after laparotomy Core
- Needlestick from a patient with HIV: advising a colleague Core
- DOPS: left double-lumen tube and desaturation on one lung
- DOPS: bronchial blocker in a difficult airway, and a blocker that slips Core
- DOPS: labour epidural, dural puncture and local anaesthetic toxicity
- DOPS: ultrasound-guided internal jugular line, wire ectopy and air embolism Core
- DOPS: scalpel front-of-neck access in CICO Core
- DOPS: fibreoptic intubation through a supraglottic airway, and laryngospasm Core
- DOPS: ultrasound-guided popliteal sciatic block Core