General Medicine Flashcards
Red flag symptoms of GI system
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Acute Gastroenterology
Diagnosis and management
- Acute GI bleed
- severe acute diarrhoea
- acute jaundice
- acute liver failure
Chronic Gastroenterology
Diagnosis and management
- Crohn’s
- IBS
- UC
- Explain differences to patient
Malabsorption
Diagosis, management, evaluation
Chronic liver disease
Diagnosis and management
Role of liver transplantation
Alcohol addiction
Strategies for management
Screening - GI Cancers
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Diabetes
Diagnosis and management
CVS risk factors
Complications
Insulin education
National therapeutic targets
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Diagnosis and management
Hypoglycaemia - acute
Diagnosis and management
Antenatal care in diabetic women
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Hyperosmolar non-ketotic syndrome
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Diabetes in childhood
Diagnosis and management
Diabetes in elderly
Diagnosis and management
Retinopathy
Hypertensive and Diabetic
- Pre proliferative, proliferative
Managing diabetic eye complications
- driving advice etc
Management of neuropathic pain
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Functioning and non-functioning pituitary tumours
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Basal and dynamic tests of pituitary function
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Hypopituitarism
Diagnosis and management
Thyroid
- Normal physiology
- hyper and hypo
- mass
- medication
Adrenal gland
- normal physiology
- cushing’s disease
- addisons disease
Diagnosis and management
Parathyroid
- normal physiology
- hypercalcaemia
- vitamin D deficiency status
Hypercalcaemia: emergency
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Gonads
- primary and secondary failure
- Turner’s
- Klinefelter’s
- Replacement therapy
Morbid obesity
Management
Hypoglycaemia
Common causes
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
MEN 1, 2a, 2b
Fluid and electrolyte acid base balance
- disturbances
- cell and electrolyte composition
Metabolic acidosis
- anion gap
Metabolic alkalosis
- anion gap
Sodium, Potassium, Calcium abnormalities
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Composition of IV fluids
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Haematuria
Micro and macroscopic causes
Management
AKI
causes presentation scoring risk reduction investigations complications dialysis indications
CKD
common causes investigations bone biochemisty and anaemia progression eGFR relevance proteinuria role of dialysis
Diabetic nephropathy
contributing factors
managing microalbuminaemia
Renal Replacement Therapy
mechanism of haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
renal transplantation and complications
Rheumatology history taking
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Red flags of back pain
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Osteoarthritis
Diagnosis and management
Rheumatoid arthritis
Diagnosis and management
Sero-negative inflammatory arthritis
Psoriasis, reactive, ankylosing spondylitis
Gout
Diagnosis and management
Osteoporosis
Diagnosis and management
Osteomalacia
Diagnosis and management
Fibromyalgia
Diagnosis and management
Connective tissue disease
SLE Scleroderma Sjorgen's syndrome Polymyositis Dermatomyositis
Vasculitis
Giant cell arteritis
Granulomatosis with polyangitis