GP Flashcards
person with severe learning disabilities on ward for operation and carer from home comes to see if she’s okay
no legal proxy
man has cancer mentally sound daughter wants how he is
verbal consent only
px in HDU septic shock and AKI - BP
invasive blood pressure
to detect white coat hypertension
24 ambulatory BP monitering
measurement of BP in GP setting
validated semi automatic digital BP monitoring with arm cuff
bedside SINAMAP machine
automated - for continued monitoring in higher dependancy patients - intermittent readings
semi automatic digital BP monitor with wrist cuff
not reliable
someone account can you treat if no permission
common law
schizophrenia women being detained says its not fair wants help to appeal
advocacy worker
patient is normal BP in GP surgery but hypertensive in clinic
AMBP
GMC good medical practice
probity - the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency
swimming in lake malawi - haematuria
schistosmoasis
back from kenya with fever
malaria
oil worker raised white patches at back of throat back from africa
HIV
metronidazole and recurrent sore throats
iatrogenic
after RTA in africa had a blood transfusion
viral infection / iatrogenic
tellings public health about communicable disease
communitarianism
girls fancies dr he changed her care
deonotology
women dying - doctor increases morphine to cover pain even though he knows she will die faster
double doctrine effect
boss phones wanting information about patient who has been off work
need patients consent
legionella
urine antigen
gardnella
stool microscopy
viral hep
blood serology
drug interactions
BNF
local prescription information
TAF
drug cost effectiveness
drug tarrif
the number of new cases that develop in a given period of time
incidence
the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time
prevalence
the ability of the test to correctly identify those without the disease
specificity
the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease
sensicitivty
alderhey
human tissue act 2004
scotland has a separate one 2006
mid staff
bad care - loads of patients killed - 2005 to 2009
shipman
killed a whole bunch of patients using diamorphine
nosocomial
hospital acquired infection
he degree to which the result of a measurement, calculation, or specification conforms to the correct value or a standard.
accuracy
malingering
patient pretending to be sick for personal gain - like time off work
