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- Front Matter
- Preface
- AUTHORS
- EDITORS
- EDITORIAL ADVISOR
- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- SERIES EDITORS
- Acknowledgements
- Reference values
- FULL BLOOD COUNT
- IRON PROFILE
- B12 AND FOLATE
- CLOTTING
- U&E
- OSMOLALITIES
- LFTS
- TFTS
- CALCIUM & PHOSPHATE
- SERUM CORTISOL
- ABG
- LIPID PROFILE
- HDL CHOLESTEROL
- List of abbreviations
- An explanation of the text
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-print
- MICRO-case
- MICRO-reference
- Inside Front Cover
- Part I Emergency and acute medicine
- 1 Emergency algorithms
- 1.1 ASSESSING THE ACUTELY UNWELL PATIENT
- The ABCDE approach
- Procedure
- Fig. 1.1 Assessing the unwell patient ABCDE algorithm.
- Fig. 1.2 Cardiac arrest/advanced life support algorithm.
- 1.2 ANAPHYLAXIS
- Fig. 1.3 Management of anaphylaxis algorithm.
- 1.3 ANALGESIA
- Methods of pain relief
- Analgesic drugs
- Specific drug considerations
- Analgesic ladder prescription algorithm
- Fig. 1.4 Analgesia prescription algorithm.
- 2 Clinical presentations
- Fig. 2.1 Abdominal pain.
- Fig. 2.2 Back pain.
- Fig. 2.3 Chest pain.
- Fig. 2.4 Confusion.
- Fig. 2.5 Diarrhoea.
- Fig. 2.6 Falls/collapse.
- Fig. 2.7 Haematuria.
- Fig. 2.8 Joint pain.
- Fig. 2.9 Leg swelling.
- Fig. 2.10 Low urine output.
- Fig. 2.11 Rash.
- Fig. 2.12 Rectal bleeding.
- Fig. 2.13 Shortness of breath.
- Fig. 2.14 Weakness.
- 3 Cardiology
- 3.1 CHEST PAIN
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Table 3.1 Causes of chest pain
- ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES
- Definition
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-print
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Fig. 3.1 ECG of STEMI.
- Table 3.2 Comparison of STEMI and NSTEMI, unstable angina
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Fig. 3.2 Management of acute coronary syndromes.
- Contraindications to thrombolysis
- Table 3.3 Contraindications to thrombolysis
- Secondary prevention
- Complications of MI
- PERICARDITIS
- Definitions
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-print
- Management
- AORTIC DISSECTION
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigation
- Management
- Fig. 3.3 Management of aortic dissection.
- MICRO-case
- 3.2 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (ECG)
- Definition
- Table 3.4 Area of the heart and its corresponding chest lead
- Fig. 3.4 Normal ECG.
- Table 3.5 ECG interpretation with normal values
- MICRO-facts
- 3.3 PALPITATIONS
- Definition
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- SINUS TACHYCARDIA
- Definition
- Causes
- ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
- Classification of AF
- Table 3.6 Classification of AF
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Table 3.7 Investigations of AF
- Fig. 3.5 ECG of atrial fibrillation.
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-reference
- Fig. 3.6 Management of AF.
- REGULAR NARROW-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIAS
- Definition
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 3.7 Management of narrow-complex tachycardia.
- MICRO-reference
- Long-term management
- VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA
- Definition
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Fig. 3.8 ECG of VT.
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Further management
- Fig. 3.9 Management of VT.
- MICRO-reference
- 3.4 BRADYCARDIA
- Definition
- Causes
- Investigations
- Fig. 3.10 ECG of first degree HB.
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- Fig. 3.11 Management of bradycardia.
- 3.5 ACUTE HEART FAILURE
- Aetiology
- Table 3.8 Causes of heart failure: comparison of low and high cardiac outputs
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Fig. 3.12 Chest X-ray of acute heart failure.
- Long-term management
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-case
- 3.6 SEVERE HYPERTENSION
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Signs of end-organ damage
- Table 3.9 Signs of end-organ damage
- Management
- Indications for admission
- Fig. 3.13 Management of severe hypertension.
- Indications to rapidly reduce BP
- 4 Respiratory
- 4.1 ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES (ABGs)
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Respiratory indications
- Contraindications
- Interpretation
- Fig. 4.1 ABG interpretation in a patient with suspected respiratory disease.
- RESPIRATORY FAILURE
- Table 4.1 Common causes of type I vs. type II respiratory failure
- 4.2 OXYGEN PRESCRIPTION
- Indications
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- Fig. 4.2 Adapted BTS oxygen therapy guidelines.
- 4.3 ACUTE ASTHMA EXACERBATION: ‘ASTHMA ATTACK’
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Fig. 4.3 Clinical features of asthma.
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Fig. 4.4 Management of asthma.
- 4.4 EXACERBATION OF COPD
- Definition
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 4.5 Management of COPD.
- MICRO-case
- 4.5 PNEUMONIA
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Fig. 4.6 Chest X-ray showing focal consolidation of right upper lobe pneumonia.
- Management
- Fig. 4.7 Management of pneumonia.
- MICRO-case
- 4.6 PNEUMOTHORAX
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 4.8 Management of pneumothorax.
- 4.7 DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS (DVT)
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Fig. 4.9 Virchow triad.
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 4.10 Wells criteria for DVT.
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-print
- 4.8 PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE)
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-print
- Clinical assessment
- Fig. 4.11 Wells criteria for PE.
- Management
- MICRO-print
- 4.9 PLEURAL EFFUSION
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Table 4.2 Diagnosis of pleural effusion
- Management
- MICRO-print
- 5 Gastroenterology
- 5.1 UPPER GASTRO INTESTINAL (GI) BLEED
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Table 5.1 Clinical features of upper GI bleed according to cause
- Assessing severity
- Investigations
- Management of acute upper GI bleed
- Further management
- MICRO-facts
- Signs of re-bleed
- MICRO-reference
- Fig. 5.1 Management of upper GI bleeds.
- Table 5.2 Rockall scoring
- 5.2 OESOPHAGEAL VARICES
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-case
- 5.3 LOWER GI BLEED
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Table 5.3 Causes and clinical features of lower GI bleeds
- Investigations
- Management
- Table 5.4 Management of lower GI bleed
- MICRO-facts
- 5.4 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Table 5.5 Comparison of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
- Extraintestinal features
- Features of severe episode
- Fig. 5.2 AXR of toxic megacolon.
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- 5.5 DIARRHOEA
- MICRO-facts
- Definition
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- 5.6 ACUTE LIVER FAILURE
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Investigations
- ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Fig. 5.3 Examination findings in acute (on chronic) liver failure.
- Management
- Table 5.6 Kings’ College criteria for transplant in acute liver failure
- 5.7 HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- Complications
- 5.8 ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigation
- Management
- 6 Neurology
- 6.1 STROKE
- Definition
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- ISCHAEMIC VS. HAEMORRHAGIC STROKE
- Clinical features
- Diagnosis
- Table 6.1 Clinical features of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke
- Fig. 6.1 Rule out stroke in the emergency room (ROSIER) tool.
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 6.2 Stroke management algorithm.
- 6.2 TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Management
- Fig. 6.3 Management of transient ischaemic attack.
- Stroke risk assessment
- Fig. 6.4 ABCD2 stroke risk assessment tool.
- MICRO-case
- 6.3 SEIZURES AND STATUS EPILEPTICUS
- Definitions
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Further management
- Fig. 6.5 Management of seizures.
- 6.4 TRANSIENT LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (SYNCOPE)
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Fig. 6.6 Systemic clinical features of syncope.
- Investigations
- Management
- Syncope vs. seizure
- Table 6.2 Clinical features of syncope and seizures
- 6.5 HEADACHE
- Aetiology
- Management
- Table 6.3 Management of headache
- MICRO-case
- 6.6 GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Aetiology
- Investigations
- Management
- 7 Endocrinology and electrolyte abnormalities
- 7.1 DIABETIC EMERGENCIES
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors
- Key features
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Fig. 7.1 Management of DKA.
- Monitoring
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-case
- HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCAEMIC STATE (HHS)
- Definition
- MICRO-print
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Investigations and management
- DKA vs. HHS
- Table 7.1 Differentiating features between DKA and HHS
- HYPOGLYCAEMIA
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Table 7.2 Clinical features of hypoglycaemic states
- MICRO-facts
- 7.2 HYPOADRENAL (ADDISONIAN) CRISIS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 7.3 THYROTOXIC CRISIS
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 7.4 ELECTROLYTE ABNORMALITIES
- HYPONATRAEMIA
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-print
- Aetiology
- Fig. 7.2 Aetiology of hyponatraemia.
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Fig. 7.3 Clinical features of hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia.
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- HYPERNATRAEMIA
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Table 7.3 Aetiology of hypernatraemia
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-case
- CALCIUM (CA2+) DISTURBANCES
- HYPOCALCAEMIA
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Table 7.4 Aetiology of hypocalcaemia
- Clinical features
- Fig. 7.4 Physiology of calcium regulation.
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-print
- Hypercalcaemia
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Table 7.5 Aetiology of hypercalcaemia
- Clinical features
- Fig. 7.5 Clinical features of hypo- and hypercalcaemia.
- Investigations
- Table 7.6 Biochemistry results typically found in some conditions related to altering calcium levels
- MICRO-print
- Management
- POTASSIUM DISTURBANCES
- Hypokalaemia
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Fig. 7.6 Clinical features of hypokalaemia and hyperkalaemia.
- Investigations
- Management
- Hyperkalaemia
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Table 7.7 Aetiology of hyperkalaemia
- Fig. 7.7 ECG changes in hyperkalaemia.
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-print
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-case
- 8 Renal emergencies
- 8.1 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY
- Definitions
- Features
- MICRO-facts
- Epidemiology and risk factors
- Consequences of abnormal renal function
- Table 8.1 Consequences of abnormal renal function
- Clinical features
- Fig. 8.1 Clinical features of renal failure.
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Table 8.2 Aetiology of renal failure divided by anatomical location
- Investigations
- Table 8.3 Calculated eGFR and the corresponding stage of CKD
- Management
- Fig. 8.2 Management of acute renal failure.
- MICRO-facts
- Indications for haemodialysis/haemofiltration
- Table 8.4 Complications of ARF and their indications for dialysis
- Indicators of a poor prognosis
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-case
- 8.2 URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- Pathophysiology
- Microbiology
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Fig. 8.3 Comparison of lower UTI and pyelonephritis.
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Table 8.5 Laboratory findings of a urine infection
- Management
- Complications
- MICRO-print
- MICRO-case
- 9 Haematology
- 9.1 ANAEMIA
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Diagnostic indicators
- Investigations
- Diagnostic approach
- Management
- Fig. 9.1 Differential diagnosis of anaemia.
- 9.2 COAGULOPATHIES
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 9.3 ANTICOAGULANTS: WARFARIN
- Warfarin in the ED
- Considerations
- MICRO-facts
- Initiation following acute thrombosis
- MICRO-facts
- Routine monitoring
- MICRO-facts
- Table 9.1 Target INR level in patients taking warfarin, according to condition
- Overtreatment
- Clinical features
- Management
- Fig. 9.2 Management of over-treatment with warfarin.
- MICRO-case
- 9.4 ANTICOAGULANTS: LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Preparations
- Complications
- 9.5 ANTICOAGULANTS: UNFRACTIONATED HEPARIN
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Preparation
- Complications
- 9.6 ANTICOAGULANTS: OTHER AGENTS
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Preparations
- Complications
- 9.7 BLOOD TRANSFUSION
- General principles
- Blood products
- Table 9.2 Blood products and indications for their use
- Administration
- Fig. 9.3 Administration of a blood transfusion.
- Blood transfusion
- Fig. 9.4 Blood transfusion orientation.
- Acute blood transfusion reaction
- Fig. 9.5 Acute transfusion reaction algorithm.
- 9.8 DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION (DIC)
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 10 Poisoning and environmental accidents
- 10.1 ASSESSMENT
- ABCDE
- Toxbase®
- MICRO-reference
- 10.2 PARACETAMOL TOXICITY
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Risk assessment
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Fig. 10.1 Treatment chart for acetylcysteine in paracetamol.
- Management
- Table 10.1 Management of paracetamol overdose
- MICRO-print
- 10.3 ASPIRIN TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 10.4 OPIOID TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 10.5 TRICYCLIC TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 10.6 BENZODIAZEPINE TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 10.7 CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 10.8 OTHER TOXINS AND ANTIDOTES
- Table 10.2 Toxins and antidotes
- 10.9 BURNS
- Assessment
- Fig. 10.2 Rule of nines body chart.
- Table 10.3 Rule of nines
- Management
- Table 10.4 Degree burn developed
- MICRO-print
- MICRO-case
- 11 Surgical emergencies
- 11.1 ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
- Aetiology
- Table 11.1 Causes of acute abdominal pain
- History
- Examination
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- 11.2 APPENDICITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigation
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- 11.3 GALLSTONES
- Definition
- Table 11.2 Location of gallstone and condition caused
- BILIARY COLIC
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- ASCENDING CHOLANGITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- ACUTE PANCREATITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Table 11.3 Investigation findings in acute pancreatitis
- Prognostic indicators
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-print
- 11.4 ACUTE BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
- Causes
- Table 11.4 Causes of bowel obstruction
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Table 11.5 Radiographic differences between small and large bowel obstruction
- Management
- Fig. 11.1 Small bowel obstruction.
- Fig. 11.2 Large bowel obstruction.
- MICRO-case
- 11.5 MESENTERIC INFARCTION
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Table 11.6 Aetiology of mesenteric infarction
- Clinical features
- Management
- 11.6 UROLOGY
- RENAL COLIC
- Definition
- Risk factors
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Table 11.7 Investigation findings in renal colic
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- TESTICULAR TORSION
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- TESTICULAR LUMPS
- Aetiology
- Fig. 11.3 Aetiology of testicular lumps.
- ORCHITIS/EPIDIDYMO-ORCHITIS
- Clinical features
- Investigation
- Management
- 11.7 VASCULAR
- ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Investigation
- Management
- ACUTE LIMB ISCHAEMIA
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- 12 Trauma
- 12.1 RESUSCITATION
- Principles
- Primary survey
- Secondary survey
- Fig. 12.1 Primary survey.
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-facts
- 12.2 COMPROMISED AIRWAY
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- 12.3 CERVICAL SPINE INJURY
- Initial management
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-reference
- MICRO-reference
- Investigations
- Fig. 12.2 Plain radiograph of cervical spine.
- MICRO-reference
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- 12.4 BREATHING
- Assessment
- Investigations
- Management
- 12.5 CIRCULATION
- 12.6 TRAUMATIC HAEMORRHAGIC SHOCK
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- DISABILITY
- Definition
- Assessment
- Fig. 12.3 Management of haemorrhagic shock.
- MICRO-facts
- 12.7 EXPOSURE
- Definition
- Management
- 12.8 POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES
- TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- TRAUMATIC PNEUMOTHORAX
- Definition
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- HAEMOTHORAX
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- RIB FRACTURE
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- FLAIL CHEST
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Fig. 12.4 Chest X-ray with multiple rib fractures.
- Management
- CARDIAC TAMPONADE
- Definition
- MICRO-print
- Differential diagnosis
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Table 12.1 Initial investigations for cardiac tamponade
- AORTIC RUPTURE
- MICRO-facts
- Mechanism of injury
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- ABDOMINAL INJURY
- Causes
- Affected organs
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- PELVIC FRACTURE
- Causes
- Examination
- Table 12.2 Examination areas in pelvic fractures
- Investigations
- Fig. 12.5 Plain radiograph of an ‘open book’ injury pelvic fracture.
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- HEAD INJURY
- Definition
- Causes
- Clinical features
- Fig. 12.6 Periorbital haematoma.
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Fig. 12.7 CT scan of an extradural haematoma following a head injury.
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- Fig. 12.8 Immediate management of head injury.
- MICRO-facts
- Complications
- FACIAL INJURY
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Associated injuries
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Table 12.3 Assessment of facial injuries
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
- MAXILLOFACIAL FRACTURES
- Nasal fracture
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Zygomatic (malar) fracture
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Maxillary fracture
- Aetiology
- Grading
- Table 12.4 Classification of maxillary fractures using the Le Fort classification
- Clinical features
- Management
- Orbital fracture
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Mandibular fracture
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 12.9 BITES
- Aetiology
- Investigations
- Management
- 13 Orthopaedics
- 13.1 FRACTURES
- Definition
- Describing a fracture
- Table 13.1 Describing a fracture
- Investigations
- Fig. 13.1 X-rays of different fractures.
- Management
- 13.2 OPEN FRACTURE
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 13.3 UPPER LIMB FRACTURES
- Fig. 13.2 Colles’ fracture.
- Fig. 13.3 Scaphoid fracture.
- Fig. 13.4 Smith’s fracture.
- Table 13.2 Upper limb fractures: mechanism of injury, clinical features and management
- 13.4 LOWER LIMB FRACTURES
- HIP FRACTURE
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Fig. 13.5 X-ray showing a neck of femur fracture.
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- FEMORAL SHAFT FRACTURE
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- ANKLE FRACTURE
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-print
- Management
- 13.5 FRACTURE COMPLICATIONS
- Table 13.3 Complications of a fracture
- COMPARTMENT SYNDROME
- Definition
- Causes
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
- COMMON NERVE INJURIES
- Table 13.4 Common nerve injuries
- 13.6 OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES
- Definition
- Fracture sites
- Table 13.5 Common sites of osteoporotic fractures
- Management
- 13.7 DISLOCATIONS
- Definition
- SHOULDER
- Types
- Fig. 13.6 Plain radiograph of posterior shoulder dislocation.
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- ANKLE
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- SOFT TISSUE INJURY
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- 13.8 KNEE INJURIES
- MICRO-facts
- RUPTURED ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MENISCAL TEAR
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 13.9 ACUTE BACK PAIN
- Aetiology
- Red flag symptoms
- Table 13.6 Red flag symptoms for back pain
- Investigations
- CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- CORD COMPRESSION
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
- MECHANICAL BACK PAIN
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- 13.10 ACUTE JOINT PAIN
- AETIOLOGY
- SEPTIC ARTHRITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- ACUTE GOUT
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 14 Paediatrics
- 14.1 ASSESSING THE PAEDIATRIC PATIENT
- Principles
- Paediatric history taking
- Table 14.1 Assessment of paediatric patients
- Normal values
- MICRO-facts
- Table 14.2 Normal values in paediatric patients
- MICRO-facts
- Pain management
- Basic life support
- MICRO-reference
- Fig. 14.1 Paediatric Basic Life Support (BLS) algorithm.
- Choking management
- Fig. 14.2 Choking management algorithm.
- 14.2 RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS
- BRONCHIOLITIS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Severity assessment
- Table 14.3 Assessing bronchiolitis severity
- Management
- MICRO-case
- ASTHMA
- Clinical features
- Table 14.4 Assessment of asthma severity
- Management
- MICRO-reference
- CROUP
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- Table 14.5 Westley modified croup score
- WHOOPING COUGH
- Clinical features
- Management
- INHALED FOREIGN BODY
- Key points
- Clinical features
- Investigations and management
- Aetiology and epidemiology
- Table 14.6 Causative organisms of LRTI ordered by age group and prevalence, with most common cause first
- MICRO-reference
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Fig. 14.3 CXR: Right upper lobe consolidation.
- Management
- 14.3 GASTROINTESTINAL AND RENAL TRACT CONDITIONS
- ABDOMINAL PAIN
- Aetiology
- Table 14.7 Causes of abdominal pain in paediatric patients
- Diagnosis and management
- MICRO-facts
- Investigation
- Management
- MICRO-case
- Fig. 14.4 Testicular torsion showing necrotic right testis.
- ACUTE APPENDICITIS
- MESENTERIC ADENITIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- INTUSSUSCEPTION
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- 14.4 DIARRHOEA AND VOMITING
- Aetiology
- Table 14.8 Causes of diarrhoea and vomiting in paediatric patients
- MICRO-facts
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- 14.5 DEHYDRATION
- Clinical features and severity assessment
- Table 14.9 Assessing severity of dehydration
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- Table 14.10 Calculating fluid maintenance
- Fig. 14.5 Calculating fluid rehydration.
- 14.6 THE FEBRILE CHILD
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Table 14.11 Causes of a febrile child
- Investigations: Septic screen
- Management
- 14.7 FEBRILE CONVULSIONS
- Definition
- Epidemiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Table 14.12 Management of febrile convulsions
- 14.8 MENINGITIS AND MENINGOCOCCAL SEPTICAEMIA
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Key points
- Table 14.13 Causative organisms in meningitis
- History
- Examination
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Fig. 14.6 Petechial rash.
- Management
- Fig. 14.7 Emergency management of meningococcal septicaemia.
- MICRO-reference
- 14.9 SKIN CONDITIONS
- RASHES
- ATOPIC ECZEMA
- Clinical features
- Management
- Table 14.14 Skin rashes and causes
- Fig. 14.8 Flexural eczema.
- URTICARIA
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- HENOCH-SCHÖNLEIN PURPURA (HSP)
- Definition
- Fig. 14.9 Urticaria wheals.
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Fig. 14.10 Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
- Investigation
- Management
- SCABIES
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- HAND-FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- Fig. 14.11 Scabies.
- Fig. 14.12 Molluscum contagiosum.
- VARICELLA ZOSTER (CHICKEN POX)
- Aetiology
- Management
- Complications
- MICRO-facts
- MEASLES
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Complications
- Fig. 14.13 Measles rash.
- Management
- MUMPS
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Complications
- Management
- RUBELLA
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Complications
- Management
- 14.10 EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
- TONSILLITIS AND PHARYNGITIS
- MICRO-facts
- OTITIS MEDIA
- EPIGLOTTITIS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Epidemiology
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- Acute epiglottitis vs. croup
- Table 14.15 Acute epiglottitis vs. croup
- 14.11 URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Diagnosis
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- MICRO-references
- 14.12 THE LIMPING CHILD
- Aetiology
- 14.13 THE HYPOGLYCAEMIC (NON-DIABETIC) CHILD
- Definition
- Management
- 14.14 NON-ACCIDENTAL INJURY AND ABUSE
- Definition
- Recognition
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 15 Obstetrics and gynaecology
- 15.1 THE PREGNANT PATIENT
- Definitions
- Management
- 15.2 EMERGENCY DELIVERY
- Clinical features
- Assessment
- Management
- 15.3 VAGINAL BLEEDING IN PREGNANCY
- Aetiology
- Table 15.1 Causes of vaginal bleeding in pregnancy
- Clinical features according to aetiology
- Table 15.2 Clinical features and causes of vaginal bleeding
- 15.4 ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
- Definition
- Risk factors
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- 15.5 MISCARRIAGE
- Clinical features
- Management
- 15.6 PLACENTAL ABRUPTION
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 15.7 PLACENTA PRAEVIA
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Management
- 15.8 VASA PRAEVIA
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-case
- 15.9 HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 15.10 PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ECLAMPSIA
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Complications
- Management
- 15.11 MENORRHAGIA
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Management
- MICRO-case
- 15.12 GYNAECOLOGICAL PAIN
- PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- ENDOMETRIOSIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 15.13 EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
- Medications used
- Contraindications
- Advice
- 16 Ear, nose and throat
- 16.1 THE EAR
- OTITIS EXTERNA
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Management
- ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA (AOM)
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Table 16.1 Stages of acute otitis media
- Fig. 16.1 Otitis media.
- ACUTE HEARING LOSS
- Aetiology
- Management
- 16.2 THE NOSE
- EPISTAXIS
- Aetiology
- Risk factors
- Management
- Table 16.2 Management of epistaxis
- MICRO-case
- NASAL FRACTURE
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- 16.3 THROAT
- PHARYNGITIS AND TONSILLITIS
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Complications
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Management
- INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- MICRO-print
- Investigations
- Management
- 16.4 FOREIGN BODIES
- EAR
- NOSE
- MICRO-print
- THROAT
- 16.5 FACIAL NERVE PALSY
- Clinical features
- Table 16.3 Features of facial nerve palsy
- BELL’s PALSY
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- RAMSAY HUNT SYNDROME
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-print
- 16.6 VERTIGO
- Clinical features
- Table 16.4 Causes of vertigo
- 17 Ophthalmology
- 17.1 THE ACUTELY RED EYE
- Causes
- Table 17.1 Causes of red eye
- 17.2 ACUTE VISUAL LOSS
- Causes
- Table 17.2 Causes of vision loss
- 17.3 ORBITAL CELLULITIS
- Aetiology
- Clinical features (Table 17.3 and Fig. 17.1)
- Table 17.3 Differences between pre-septal and post-septal cellulitis
- Fig. 17.1 Pre-septal cellulitis and orbital cellulitis.
- Management
- 17.4 FOREIGN BODY (FB)
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Examination
- Management
- 18 Infectious diseases
- 18.1 NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- 18.2 EMPIRICAL ANTIBIOTIC DOSES
- Table 18.1 Empirical antibiotic doses for common infections
- MICRO-reference
- 18.3 GASTROENTERITIS
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Investigations
- Management
- Fig. 18.1 Management of gastroenteritis.
- Transmission avoidance
- Complications
- Fig. 18.2 Haemolytic uraemic syndrome.
- 18.4 CELLULITIS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Risk factors
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- 18.5 ERYSIPELAS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Fig. 18.3 Antibiotic treatment of cellulitis and erysipelas.
- 18.6 NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
- Definition
- MICRO-facts
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- MICRO-print
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-case
- 18.7 MENINGITIS AND MENINGOCOCCAL SEPTICAEMIA
- Definitions
- Risk factors
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Table 18.2 Clinical features of adult meningitis
- Management
- Fig. 18.4 Management of adult meningitis.
- Investigations
- Further management
- Table 18.3 Differential lumbar puncture results for infective meningitis
- MICRO-print
- 18.8 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- Definition
- Risk factors
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Table 18.4 Features of infective endocarditis
- MICRO-print
- Investigations
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Further investigation
- Fig. 18.5 Diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis.
- Aetiology
- Table 18.5 Causative organisms of infective endocarditis
- MICRO-print
- Treatment
- Table 18.6 Treatment of infective endocarditis
- 19 Psychiatry
- 19.1 DELIBERATE SELF-HARM
- Causes
- Methods of self-harm
- MICRO-facts
- Assessing suicidal intent
- Table 19.1 SAD Persons scoring system to assess suicide risk
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- 19.2 AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR
- Causes
- Management
- MICRO-facts
- 19.3 SIDE EFFECTS OF ANTIPSYCHOTICS
- Clinical features
- ACUTE DYSTONIA
- Clinical features
- Management
- NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- MICRO-print
- 19.4 LITHIUM TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- MICRO-facts
- Table 19.2 Clinical features of lithium toxicity according to blood levels
- 19.5 ALCOHOL ABUSE
- CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL ABUSE
- Fig. 19.1 Consequences of alcohol abuse.
- ACUTE ALCOHOL TOXICITY
- Clinical features
- Differential diagnosis
- Investigations
- Management
- Assessment of alcohol dependence
- MICRO-facts
- ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
- Definition
- Management
- DELIRIUM TREMENS
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- WERNICKE’s ENCEPHALOPATHY
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Management
- KORSAKOFF’s PSYCHOSIS
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Management
- MICRO-case
- 19.6 SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- Common drugs
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- 19.7 PSYCHOSIS
- Definition
- Aetiology
- MICRO-facts
- Clinical features
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
- 19.8 DELIRIUM
- Definition
- Clinical features
- Aetiology
- Investigations
- MICRO-facts
- Management
- Part II Self-assessment
- 20 Cardiology
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 21 Respiratory
- Questions
- EMQs
- Stem 1 Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Stem 2 Diagnostic options
- Question 4
- Question 5
- Question 6
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Answers
- EMQ answers
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Answer 5
- Answer 6
- SBA answers
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- 22 Gastroenterology
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- 23 Neurology
- Questions
- EMQs
- Stem 1 Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Stem 2 Diagnostic options
- Question 4
- Question 5
- Question 6
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Answer 5
- Answer 6
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- 24 Endocrinology and electrolyte abnormalities
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Question 5
- Question 6
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Answer 5
- Answer 6
- 25 Renal emergencies
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 26 Haematology
- Questions
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Answers
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- 27 General surgery
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Diagnostic options
- Question 2
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 28 Trauma and orthopaedics
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Question 5
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Answer 5
- 29 Paediatrics
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Diagnostic options
- Question 2
- Diagnostic options
- Question 3
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 30 Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Diagnostic options
- Question 2
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 31 ENT and ophthalmology
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Diagnostic options
- Question 2
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Question 1
- Question 2
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- 32 Infectious diseases
- Questions
- EMQs
- Stem 1 Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Stem 2 Diagnostic options
- Question 4
- Question 5
- Question 6
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Answer 5
- Answer 6
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- 33 Psychiatry
- Questions
- EMQs
- Diagnostic options
- Question 1
- SBAs
- Question 1
- Question 2
- Question 3
- Question 4
- Answers
- EMQ ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- SBA ANSWERS
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
- Answer 3
- Answer 4
- Back Matter
- Index
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