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Audits & QIPs are a way to identify issues, drive changes and assess the effects they have. It is your way of making improvements in your workplace, where you can assess the impact...
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Ischaemic bowel disease can be divided into acute mesenteric ischaemia, chronic mesenteric ischaemia, and colonic ischaemia. This article will predominantly...
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...
Neonatal ventilation is a complex topic but one you may need to get your head around as an FY2 if you cover a NICU as part of your paeds rotation. You should read our article about...
Glaucoma can be divided into open-angle or closed-angle glaucoma. Closed-angle glaucoma has been described in a separate article. Open-angle glaucoma accounts for the majority (74%)...
Anaesthetics is a very hands-on specialty. Day-to-day work will have a mix of practical procedures and other clinical work such as pre-operative assessment. You will have a lot of supervision...
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Patients regularly present under the acute take with gallstone disease. The aim of this article is to supplement the surgical webinar series session on gallstone disease that can be...
We commonly find ourselves needing to communicate with the next of kin & relatives.
In this article, we cover the general aspects of this. Please note there are specific articles...
Heart Failure is not a diagnosis in itself, rather a collection of symptoms that require investigation to find the underlying cause.
Heart failure syndrome is the term used to describe...
In this article, we will go through the three most common scenarios you will encounter. These are: (1) Does this patient need a transfusion? (2) Can you group & save or transfuse...
Pancreatitis is a condition characterised by the inflammation of the pancreas. These patients are usually managed conservatively. Your aim is to try to find out the underlying cause,...
The first thing when called is to identify whether the bleeding is truly a lower GI bleed or whether it is an Upper GI Bleed as the management differs. Both can quickly become...
As a doctor, you may come across patients with complex airways. They should be found on dedicated wards such as respiratory, ENT, ITU or HDU – however, bed pressures might lead...
Bowel obstruction is a common reason for admission or complication of patients under the surgical team, but doctors don’t frequently get that much exposure to it in medical school....
As a doctor, you will frequently be called for a drowsy patient. They can vary from confused to completely unconscious. The Glasgow Coma Scale can help reliably quantify and track the...
Spinal cord compression occurs when there is compression of the spinal cord or cauda equina at any level secondary to the effects of a malignancy. This can include metastatic infiltration...
