relevant questions Flashcards
what are the relevant questions for headache
- onset
- location
- duration
what are the relevant questions for giddiness/vertigo
- vertiginous or not
- onset
- duration
what are the relevant questions for syncope
- circumstances before onset
- syncope/near syncope? (can hear people/ see lights?)
- duration
witness hx: - jerking of limbs/ uprolling of eyes
what are the relevant questions for seizure
- onset
- duration
- witnesses?
- fall?
- jerking of limbs/ uprolling of eyes
what are the relevant questions for AMS
witness hx
- onset
- characteristics
what are the relevant questions for chest pain
- onset
- location
- duration
- characteristics
- worse on inspiration?
- radiation
what are the relevant questions for palpitations
- onset
- duration
what are the relevant questions for breathlessness
- onset
- effort tolerance
what are the relevant questions for haemoptysis
- cough or vomit blood?
- duration
- amount
what are the relevant questions for diarrhoea/vomiting
- number of episodes
- duration
- any blood
what are the relevant questions for GIB
- cough/vomit blood?
- number of episodes
- duration
- amount
- characteristics
what are the relevant questions for fever
- onset
- duration
- anti-pyretics taken at home
what are the relevant questions for abdo pain
- onset
- location
- duration
- characteristic: colicky/constant/similar to menstrual cramps?
- radiation
what are the relevant questions for abdo pain in obstetrics
- trimester
- onset
- location
- characteristic
- fetal movement
what are the relevant questions for RTA (motorcycle)
- speed
- helmet
- windscreen
- flung
what are the relevant questions for RTA (car)
- speed
- airbag
- seatbelt
- cooccupants dead
what are the relevant questions for head trauma
- when?
- how?
what are the relevant questions for neck trauma
- when?
- how?
what are the relevant questions for chest trauma
- when?
- how?
what are the relevant questions for abdominal trauma
- when?
- how?
what are the relevant questions for pelvic trauma
- when?
- how?
- deformities, shortening, swelling
what are the relevant questions for spine trauma
- when
- how
what are the relevant questions for limb trauma
- when?
- how
what are the relevant questions for burns
- when?
- burnt by what?
what are the relevant questions for poisoning
- type
- timeline (onset, duration)
- taken (amount)
- together (co-ingestions)
what are the relevant questions for eye complaints
- duration
- discharge
- trauma/FB
(chemical injury > alkali?)
what are the relevant questions for ear
- duration
- discharge/blood
- trauma/FB
what are the relevant questions for nose
- duration
- discharge/blood
- trauma/FB
what are the relevant questions for throat and mouth
- duration
- discharge/blood
- trauma/FB
what are the relevant questions for dental
- duration
- discharge/blood
- trauma/FB
what are the relevant questions for pv bleed (obstetrics)
- trimester
- onset
- quantity
- fetal movement
what are the relevant questions for pre-eclampsia
- trimester
- onset
- duration
- fetal movement
what are the relevant questions for pv bleed (non-pregnant)
- onset
- rs to menses
- duration
- quantity
what are the relevant questions for paeds
- onset
- duration
what are the relevant questions for psychiatry
- onset
- duration
- behaviour as per witnesses
