GP Flashcards
Whats ages do health workers work with?
0-5
Give 3 roles of the health visitor
- ) Ante-natal and post-natal support
- ) Support parents
- ) Advice on feeding
- ) Support special needs
- ) Advise on behavioural management techniques
- ) Advice on reducing risks and accidents
- ) Information on local services
- ) Safeguarding
What is the red book/PCHR?
Personal child health record
Give 3 purposes of a 6-8 week baby check
- ) Detect congenital heart disease
- ) Developmental dysplasia of hip
- ) Congenital cataract
- ) Undescended testes
- ) Hernias
Give 3 things children are vaccinated against at 8 weeks
- ) Diphtheria
- ) Tetanus
- ) Pertussis (DTP)
- ) Polio
- ) H. influenzae
- ) Hep B
- ) Pneumococcal
- ) Meningococcal group B
- ) Rotavirus gastroenteritis
Give 3 things children are vaccinated against at 12 weeks
- ) DTP
- ) Polio
- ) Hib
- ) Hep B
- ) Pneumococcal
- ) Men B
Give 3 things children are vaccinated against at 16 weeks
- ) DTP
- ) Polio
- ) Hib
- ) Hep B
- ) Pneumoccocal
- ) Men B
Give 3 things children are vaccinated against at 12 months
- ) Hib
- ) Men C
- ) Pneumococcal
- ) MMR
- ) Men B
What are girls aged 12-13 given a vaccination of?
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
What is the aim of vaccination?
To produce a rapid protective immune response upon re-exposure to that pathogen
Give the steps of the pathogenesis of vaccination with T cells (6)
1) Macrophages ingest attacker/fragments
2) Travel to lymph nodes
3) Use class II MHC molecules to present antigens
4) Helper T cell receptors recognise antigens
5) Helper T cell receptors bind and trigger helper T cells to proliferate
6) Eventually some of helper T cells become memory cells
Give the steps of the pathogenesis of vaccination with B cells (4)
1) B cell receptors recognise attacker/fragment of attacker from APC
2) B cell triggered
3) Proliferates and makes plasma cells to make lots of the same antibody
4) Some B cells become memory cells
Give the 3 types of vaccine
- ) Inactivated
- ) Attenuated
- ) Live vaccines
Give 3 differential diagnoses for a cough
- ) Asthma
- ) Acute respiratory infection
- ) GORD
- ) Seasonal allergic rhinitis
- ) Post infectious cough
- ) Pertussis
- ) Pneumonia
- ) Head cold
- ) TB
- ) Inhaled foreign body
- ) Bronchiolitis
Give 3 differential diagnoses for SOB
- ) Asthma
- ) Severe anaemia
- ) Pneumothorax
- ) Pulmonary oedema
- ) COPD
- ) Arrhythmia
- ) Lower respiratory tract infection
- ) Panic attacks
- ) Metabolic acidosis
- ) PE
Give 2 measurements a spirometry shows
- ) Amount of air you breathe out in 1 second
- ) Total amount of air in lungs
What is a peak flow test?
How fast you can blow air out of your lungs in one breath
Give 2 tests for breast cancer
- ) Mammogram
- ) US
- ) Core biopsy
- ) Fine needle aspiration
Give 3 presenting symptoms of breast cancer
- ) Breast lump
- ) Nipple change
- ) Nipple discharge
- ) Bloodstained discharge from nipple
- ) Skin contour changes
- ) Axillary lumps
- ) Breast pain/mastalgia
- ) Symptoms of metastatic disease
What are we looking for in a breast inspection?
- ) Variations in breast size and contour
- ) Inverted nipple? Uni/bilateral?
- ) Any oedema?
- ) Redness/retraction of skin
- ) Dimpling of skin (orange peel)
How do we palpate a breast in examination?
- ) Flat hand of 2,3,4th fingers
- ) Circle outwards from nipple
- ) Increase axillary tail and axilla
- ) Light, medium then deep pressure
- ) Assess mobility of lump (attached to skin/tissue?)
- ) Both breasts
When should we urgently refer to a breast clinic and see within 2 weeks?
- ) Suspicious breast lump
- ) Persistent/unexplained lump in axilla
- ) Unilateral nipple discharge, retraction, ulceration, distortion, eczema resistant to topical steroids, changes of concern
- ) Skin changes including nodules, ulceration, peau d’orange, dimpling
- ) Unilateral non cyclical breast pain persisting beyond one menstrual cycle
- ) Men >50 with subareolar lump
Give 3 systemic symptoms of breast cancer
- ) Weight loss
- ) Fever
- ) Lethargy
- ) Pain elsewhere
- ) Gland swelling
Give 2 medications we need to ask about in breast cancer investigations
- ) HRT
- ) Oral contraceptive pill
What does BRCA stand for?
Breast cancer gene
What does BRCA do when it functions normally?
Acts to repair cell damage to keep breast, ovarian and other cells growing normally - TUMOUR SUPPRESSORS
What are BRCAs considered, as they are associated with a high risk of developing breast cancer?
High penetrance
What other mutations (not BRCAs) are linked to a higher breast cancer risk?
SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms
Men with an abnormal what have a higher risk of breast cancer?
BRCA2
Give 2 risk reducing surgeries for breast cancer
- ) Mastectomy
- ) Oophorectomy
What does an oophorectomy lead to?
Early menopause
Give an advantage of having a genetic test for BRCA
- ) Positive - take steps to manage risk
- ) Less stress and anxiety from not knowing
Give a disadvantage of having a genetic test for BRCA
- ) Results sometimes inconclusive
- ) Positive result can cause permanent anxiety
Is BRCA autosomal dominant or recessive?
Dominant
Give 3 ways we manage our risk of breast cancer
- ) Regularly examine breasts
- ) Screening
- ) Lifestyle changes
- ) Medication
- ) Risk-reducing surgery
What is the AMONA management for an acute MI?
Ambulance Morphine Oxygen Nitrates Aspirin
Give 3 differential diagnoses for chest pain
- ) Heartburn
- ) Indigestion
- ) Chest sprain/strain
- ) Anxiety/panic attack
- ) Chest infection/pneumonia
- ) Shingles
What are the 9 areas of the abdomen?
- ) L hypochondriac
- ) Epigastric
- ) R hypochondriac
- ) L lumbar
- ) Umbilical
- ) R lumbar
- ) L iliac fossa
- ) Suprapubic
- ) R iliac fossa
Give 4 things we look for in an abdominal examination
- ) Scars
- ) Ascites
- ) Masses
- ) Pulsation
- ) Cullen’s sign (bruising around umbilicus)
- ) Grey-Turner’s sign (bruising in flanks)
- ) Abdominal distension
- ) Striae
- ) Caput medusae
- ) Stomas
What are we assessing for on abdominal palpation?
- ) Tenderness
- ) Rebound tenderness (peritonitis)
- ) Guarding
- ) Masses
What are the steps of an abdominal examination? (9)
1) Observation
2) Light palpation
3) Deep palpation
4) Liver
5) Gallbladder (not usually palpable)
6) Spleen (not usually palpable)
7) Kidneys
8) Aorta
9) Bladder (empty not palpable)
What is Murphy’s sign?
- ) Place hand in R costal margin mid-clavicular line
- ) Patient takes deep breath
- ) Sudden stop in inspiration due to pain
- ) Positive if no discomfort in same location on left
What does liver tenderness suggest?
Hepatitis
What can a pulsatile enlarged liver be caused by?
Tricuspid regurgitation
What does an outward movement on aorta examination indicate?
Expansile, suggestive of AAA
What should we suspect if there is acute diarrhoea?
Gastoenteritis
Give 3 risk factors for diarrhoea
- ) Travel
- ) Insect bites
- ) Contact with dirty water
- ) Contact with D&V
- ) Diet change
What do we ask about diarrhoea?
- ) Consistency
- ) Mucous
- ) Blood
- ) Urgency
Give 3 infectious causes of diarrhoea
- ) Campylobacter
- ) E. coli
- ) Norovirus
- ) Rotavirus
- ) Malaria
- ) Giardiasis