NHS PATHWAYS CORE EXAM SCRIPT 2025 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔faint - ✔✔a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the
brain
upright is dangerous prevents normal circulation
✔✔meningitis - ✔✔inflammation of the meninges caused by viral or bacterial infection
✔✔symptoms in babies and infants - ✔✔fever, sleepy, irritable, vomiting, pale,blotchy
skin
bulging fronanelle, unrsponsive, jerky
✔✔symptoms in children and adults - ✔✔severe headache, fever, confusion, nausea
seizures, dont like bright light, stiff neck, rapid breathing, myscle pain
red spotty, pinprick rash
✔✔Meningococcal meningitis - ✔✔bacteria causes sepsis
enter blood releases endotoxins damages blood vessels, blood leaks into tissues under
skin causing rash, spreads quick
✔✔indicatorsof breathlessness in infants - ✔✔chest and tummy sucked in
head bobbing up and down
unable to cry properly, grunting noise
✔✔in adults - ✔✔gasping, wheezing, unable to speak, noise, nlue tinge around mouth
✔✔asthma - ✔✔inflammation and narrowing of airways
wheezing noise
shortness of breath
cough and tight chest
✔✔COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - ✔✔smoking, long term asthma
tight chest, cough, phlegm
wheezing, breathlessness
long term exposure to pollution
✔✔vomiting - ✔✔infections by bacteria
motion sickness, alcohol
inflammation of stomach lining
reaction to medicine
✔✔diarrhoea - ✔✔reduced absorption of food,vitamins
intestinal irration increaes spped of food passage
causes: food sensitivyt, stress, antibiotics, infections,
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔faint - ✔✔a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the
brain
upright is dangerous prevents normal circulation
✔✔meningitis - ✔✔inflammation of the meninges caused by viral or bacterial infection
✔✔symptoms in babies and infants - ✔✔fever, sleepy, irritable, vomiting, pale,blotchy
skin
bulging fronanelle, unrsponsive, jerky
✔✔symptoms in children and adults - ✔✔severe headache, fever, confusion, nausea
seizures, dont like bright light, stiff neck, rapid breathing, myscle pain
red spotty, pinprick rash
✔✔Meningococcal meningitis - ✔✔bacteria causes sepsis
enter blood releases endotoxins damages blood vessels, blood leaks into tissues under
skin causing rash, spreads quick
✔✔indicatorsof breathlessness in infants - ✔✔chest and tummy sucked in
head bobbing up and down
unable to cry properly, grunting noise
✔✔in adults - ✔✔gasping, wheezing, unable to speak, noise, nlue tinge around mouth
✔✔asthma - ✔✔inflammation and narrowing of airways
wheezing noise
shortness of breath
cough and tight chest
✔✔COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - ✔✔smoking, long term asthma
tight chest, cough, phlegm
wheezing, breathlessness
long term exposure to pollution
✔✔vomiting - ✔✔infections by bacteria
motion sickness, alcohol
inflammation of stomach lining
reaction to medicine
✔✔diarrhoea - ✔✔reduced absorption of food,vitamins
intestinal irration increaes spped of food passage
causes: food sensitivyt, stress, antibiotics, infections,
