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Diabetes mellitus can cause both macrovascular (e.g., myocardial infarction, peripheral vascular disease, stroke) and microvascular (e.g., nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy)...
This guide is designed to help you take a safe, structured, and clinically relevant history when assessing a patient with acute joint pain or swelling. It focusses on gathering the...
We have compiled a list of wellbeing resources designed to support healthcare professionals in improving their mental health:
WELLBEING RESOURCES
BMA Wellbeing Support Services
Covers...
The NHS is funded via a ‘payments by results’ system1 where hospitals are paid for the work they do instead of being allocated a certain amount of money to spend each year. To demonstrate...
This is a UKMLA-centred history guide about red eye.
Introduction
This article will guide you on how to approach history taking for a patient presenting with red eye.
This...
The PSA is aimed at final year medical students and those graduating overseas to assess their competency at prescribing as Foundation Year 1 Doctors. It can also be taken by FY1s if...
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With the recent removal of additional degrees counting for points towards all specialty applications for 2023 recruitment, it’s now even more important to build one’s portfolio...
Bradyarrhythmias are abnormal heart rhythms with a pulse rate of <60 beats per minute (bpm). This can be due to a variety of causes, including sinus node disease, atrioventricular...
Management of low blood sugar in conscious & unconscious patients, finding common causes, adjusting medications & when to refer.
Serum calcium concentration is tightly regulated between 2.1-2.6mmol/L. Severe hypercalcaemia is a life-threatening electrolyte emergency requiring prompt recognition and urgent treatment....
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adverse drug reactions (ADR) as “any response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man”....
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You may well be asked to take blood from a PICC line or be called to see a patient because their PICC line is not working. In this article we will take you through the basics of PICC...
Children are vulnerable. Unfortunately, child abuse does happen, and it has a significant and lifelong impact. You may be one of the only professionals to have sufficient access to...
This article is supplementary to the webinar on the same subject, which you might find extremely useful as we were joined by Andrew, a pensions expert from Wesleyan.
We also address...
In the UK, there are different contracts for each region: Northern Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales. For England, the latest update is in 2018 & it is worth making sure you’re...
