Emergency medicine and intensive care — in the LEK question base
Resuscitation and ERC guidelines, life-threatening emergencies, triage, ventilation and fluid therapy.
- Questions in base
- 235
- Share of base
- 9.5%
- Roughly on the paper
- ~13
The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.
Required reading — emergency medicine and intensive care
The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.
They appear here in Polish, exactly as CEM lists them — these are the specific editions that count, and most have no English translation. That is not an oversight on our part; it is the central practical problem of sitting this exam in English.
- 01 V.J. Markovchick, P.T. Pons, K.M. Bakes; J.R. Ładny, M. Wojewódzka-Żelezniakowicz (red.) — Medycyna ratunkowa w pytaniach i odpowiedziach, Medipage, 2016
- 02 Krystyn Sosada, Wojciech Żurawiński (red.) — Ostre stany zagrożenia życia w obrażeniach ciała, PZWL, 2018
- 03 Krystyn Sosada (red.) — Ostre stany zagrożenia życia w chorobach wewnętrznych, PZWL, 2016
- 04 Janusz Andres (red.) — Wytyczne resuscytacji 2021, Polska Rada Resuscytacji, 2022
Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.
How to get through this field
235 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 12 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.
In our bank every question in this field carries an explanation and a citation to its source. Instead of memorising a letter you see why the other four options are wrong — and that is the part which transfers to the 60 unpublished questions you cannot prepare for in advance. The English edition is in progress; these pages come first.