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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...
Digital nerve block is a quick and effective method to provide anaesthesia for injuries and procedures to the digits. This is a useful skill for any doctor working in the emergency...
This is a UKMLA-centred history guide about abdominal pain.
Introduction
Causes of abdominal pain can range from surgical emergencies to mild self limiting gastroenteritis. Being...
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...
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 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...
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When you are on call, you will often get a bleep about a patient with abdominal pain. Abdominal pain can be a bit of a minefield and it is easy to get bogged down with all the possibilities....
The deteriorating patient is often the worst nightmare for new FY1s. I remember when I started FY1, I was terrified of coming across a deteriorating patient whilst on call and...
Acute confusion, otherwise known as delirium, is very common in hospitals: 20-30% on medical wards, and between 10-50% of those that have surgery develop delirium.
Types of Delirium
Hyperactive...
As an FY1 you should not be expected to make decisions regarding treatment escalation and DNAR, but you may need to prompt seniors to consider them & explain these decisions to...
FY1 is a great opportunity to explore new specialties and start to gain an idea of what working in them is actually like.
A few things to bear in mind though:
As an FY1 your job...
Important things to remember
You will get sick. That is life. You’re surrounded by germ-exuding things (otherwise known as your patients and colleagues), and may well be in a new...
Writing a discharge summary is a task you are likely to carry out every day, and despite the sense of monotony, it plays a critical part in the patient journey.
Contents of a...
As an FY1 doctor, there are different types of leave you will come across during the year and the rest of your career. This article will talk about annual leave, study leave and sick...
The most common place you will see a patient who has self-harmed is in ED, where they have been referred to the psychiatry team but need to be medically cleared. Rarely this could occur...
An arterial blood gas (ABG) test is performed to measure the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood, as well as the pH. The sample is taken from an artery.
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Gloves
Alcohol...
