Red fright or green light? | A child with fever
A 14 month year old boy has a fever for the past 4 days. The fever peaked at 38.5°C as measured at home. The child has been irritable and clingy…
A 14 month year old boy has a fever for the past 4 days. The fever peaked at 38.5°C as measured at home. The child has been irritable and clingy…
Early warning scores are in use throughout NHS hospitals to spot patients who are deteriorating. So where did they come from, and what are their limitations? At Barts in 1997,…
Wow. This is a long syllabus. It’s taken me three hours to put this next section together, which leaves me with little time for pretty pictures/mnemonics. Let’s crack page 83….
I guess the ideal doctor would have experienced first hand every condition that can affect a human. He or she would then be able to pattern recognise what the patient…
A man with vascular dementia was admitted following a suicide attempt. The Crisis consultant felt it was high risk, and recommended him to be admitted. There’s “oh, dementia” and “oh…dementia”….
An man in his early 80s with a background of Type I diabetes is day 1 post above knee amputation. You are called to see him at 5pm because of…
The prize for the most extreme hypokalemia ever is not awarded solely for the magnitude of the hypokalemia. It is much more impressive when the potassium refuses to rise above…
You know that feeling on your first day of A-Level chemistry when you find out everything they told you in GCSE was a lie? I felt something similar when I…
A lady in her late 50s with a background of metastatic colon cancer was referred by her GP with a Hb of 6.1 (MCV 89.8, WCC 20.9, Plt 117). This…
Things were livened around 11am up by a call from the ultrasonographer. A man in his late 60s year had undergone an abdominal ultrasound at the request of the consultant…