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what are the relevant questions for headache

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  • onset
  • location
  • duration
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what are the relevant questions for giddiness/vertigo

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  • vertiginous or not
  • onset
  • duration
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what are the relevant questions for syncope

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  • circumstances before onset
  • syncope/near syncope? (can hear people/ see lights?)
  • duration
    witness hx:
  • jerking of limbs/ uprolling of eyes
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what are the relevant questions for seizure

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  • onset
  • duration
  • witnesses?
  • fall?
  • jerking of limbs/ uprolling of eyes
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what are the relevant questions for AMS

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witness hx
- onset
- characteristics

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what are the relevant questions for chest pain

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  • onset
  • location
  • duration
  • characteristics
  • worse on inspiration?
  • radiation
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what are the relevant questions for palpitations

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  • onset
  • duration
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what are the relevant questions for breathlessness

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  • onset
  • effort tolerance
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what are the relevant questions for haemoptysis

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  • cough or vomit blood?
  • duration
  • amount
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what are the relevant questions for diarrhoea/vomiting

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  • number of episodes
  • duration
  • any blood
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what are the relevant questions for GIB

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  • cough/vomit blood?
  • number of episodes
  • duration
  • amount
  • characteristics
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what are the relevant questions for fever

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  • onset
  • duration
  • anti-pyretics taken at home
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what are the relevant questions for abdo pain

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  • onset
  • location
  • duration
  • characteristic: colicky/constant/similar to menstrual cramps?
  • radiation
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what are the relevant questions for abdo pain in obstetrics

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  • trimester
  • onset
  • location
  • characteristic
  • fetal movement
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what are the relevant questions for RTA (motorcycle)

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  • speed
  • helmet
  • windscreen
  • flung
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what are the relevant questions for RTA (car)

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  • speed
  • airbag
  • seatbelt
  • cooccupants dead
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what are the relevant questions for head trauma

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  • when?
  • how?
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what are the relevant questions for neck trauma

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  • when?
  • how?
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what are the relevant questions for chest trauma

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  • when?
  • how?
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what are the relevant questions for abdominal trauma

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  • when?
  • how?
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what are the relevant questions for pelvic trauma

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  • when?
  • how?
  • deformities, shortening, swelling
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what are the relevant questions for spine trauma

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  • when
  • how
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what are the relevant questions for limb trauma

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  • when?
  • how
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what are the relevant questions for burns

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  • when?
  • burnt by what?
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what are the relevant questions for poisoning

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  • type
  • timeline (onset, duration)
  • taken (amount)
  • together (co-ingestions)
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what are the relevant questions for eye complaints

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  • duration
  • discharge
  • trauma/FB
    (chemical injury > alkali?)
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what are the relevant questions for ear

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  • duration
  • discharge/blood
  • trauma/FB
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what are the relevant questions for nose

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  • duration
  • discharge/blood
  • trauma/FB
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what are the relevant questions for throat and mouth

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  • duration
  • discharge/blood
  • trauma/FB
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what are the relevant questions for dental

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  • duration
  • discharge/blood
  • trauma/FB
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what are the relevant questions for pv bleed (obstetrics)

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  • trimester
  • onset
  • quantity
  • fetal movement
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what are the relevant questions for pre-eclampsia

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  • trimester
  • onset
  • duration
  • fetal movement
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what are the relevant questions for pv bleed (non-pregnant)

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  • onset
  • rs to menses
  • duration
  • quantity
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what are the relevant questions for paeds

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  • onset
  • duration
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what are the relevant questions for psychiatry

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  • onset
  • duration
  • behaviour as per witnesses

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