Abstract
Single Best Answer Question
A 65-year-old gentleman who is known to suffer from atrial fibrillation (AF) presents in the emergency surgery with sudden onset of right foot pain. On examination the foot is pale and cold with undetectable pulses by both palpation and hand held Doppler. He reports increasing claudication pain in the same leg over the past few weeks.
Emergency admission under the care of the vascular surgery team Refer routinely to the vascular surgeons Refer to the podiatric surgeons Start aspirin and a statin Trial of nifedipine
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