Minor illnesses Flashcards
Candidiasis:
- Causes
- Risk factors (6)
- Symptoms (4)
- Differentials
- Complications
- Investigations
- Management
Bacterial vaginosis:
- Causes
- Risk factors (5)
- Symptoms
- Investigations
- Management
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Headaches:
- Investigations (5)
- Management in primary care
- Red flags
Medication overuse headache:
- Symptoms
- Management
Cluster:
- Symptoms
- Triggers
- Management + prophylaxis
Space occupying lesion:
- Symptoms
- Investigations
Trigeminal neuralgia:
- Symptoms
- Triggers
- Investigations
- Management
Temporal arteritis:
- Management
Tension headaches:
- Causes (3)
- Symptoms
- Management
Migraine:
- Pathophysiology
- Triggers (7)
- Symptoms
- Management
LRTI: Bronchitis
- Definition
- Causes (4)
- Symptoms (4)
- Investigations
- Management
LRTI: Pneumonia:
- Definition
- Causes
- Risk factors (4)
- Symptoms
- Signs (6)
- Investigations
- Management
URTI:
Cold:
- Causes (3)
- Symptoms
- Management
Influenza:
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Management
- Who’s eligible for vaccine
- Complications
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URTI: Sore throat:
- Differentials
- Investigations
- Management
Tonsillitis:
- Definition
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
Abscesses:
- Definition
- Causes
- Symptoms for skin + internal
- Management
Sprain:
- Definition
- Symptoms (5)
Strain:
- Definition
- Symptoms (4)
- Complications (4)
- Investigations
- Management
Blackouts:
- Definition
- Causes (4)
- Investigations
- Management
Aphthous ulcer:
- Risk factors (10)
- Symptoms
- Investigations
- Management
Plantar fasciitis (policemans heel):
- Definition
- Risk factors (6)
- Symptoms
- DD
- Management
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease:
- Management in primary care
Advice on lifestyle measures (obesity, trigger foods, smoking, alcohol, coffee, and stress) and sleeping with the head of the bed raised.
Reviewing and stopping any drugs that may be exacerbating symptoms, if possible and appropriate.
Offering a full-dose PPI for 4 weeks for proven GORD, to aid healing.
Offering a full-dose PPI for 8 weeks for proven severe oesophagitis, to aid healing.
Offered annual reviews
Encouraged to step down or stop treatment, if possible and appropriate.
Refer: persistent, controlled on meds but wants to come off, risk for Barrett
Diarrhoea and vomiting:
- Investigations
- Management
Congenital rubella syndrome:
- Definition
- Conditions it causes (4)
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Red flags for acute red eye (4)
What would you do for examination
- Episcleritis
- Acute iritis
- Corneal ulcer
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Conjunctivitis:
Infective:
- Symptoms
- Causes
- Management
- Complication
Allergic:
- Symptoms
Glaucoma:
Open iridocorneal angle:
- Definition
- Risk factors (6)
- Symptoms
- Signs
- Management in primary
Acute closed angle:
- Risk factors
- Symptoms
Subconjunctival haemorrhage:
- Definition
- Symptoms
- Management
Meibomian cyst vs stye
Cellulitis:
Pre-orbital:
- Definition
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Management
Orbital:
- Definition
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Complications
- 6 in 1 vaccine
whooping
tetanus
polio
hib
hepb
diphtheria