Mitral regurgitation
Category Archives: Previous assorted info snippets
The daily educational pearl – grading power
Basic knowledge again, but I’ve noticed some interesting numbers used to grade motor power in some medical notes recently, so I thought a reminder would be useful:
The daily educational pearl – complications of acute pshychostimulant use
Psychostimulants = broad range of substances that include:
The daily educational pearl – hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
= muscle weakness or paralysis with associated hypokalaemia
A Tooth By Any Other Name – A Quick Overview of Dental Nomenclature
You’ve just seen a male who has been assaulted. He’s damaged three of his front teeth and you are going to refer him onto a dentist.
How are you going to describe which teeth are injured ?
The daily educational pearl – Jones criteria rheumatic fever
The diagnosis of rheumatic fever can be made when 2 major criteria, or 1 major criterion plus 2 minor criteria, are present as well as evidence of previous streptococcal infection. The are known as revised Jones criteria.
The daily educational pearl – Aortic regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation
The daily educational pearl – Mitral stenosis
For those sitting exams soon. And for those who haven’t opened Talley & O’Connor’s for a while.
Mitral stenosis
The daily educational pearl – Myth or fact: topical ophthalmic medications can’t cause systemic effects?
Myth.
The Pharmacy Department at Repatriation General Hospital in Daw Park (Adelaide) in South Australia have recently published a very interesting bulletin on the systemic effects of topical ophthalmic preparations.
The daily educational pearl – Is your confused patient delirious?
Your next patient is brought it for disturbing behaviour. Most likely to be an elderly patient from a nursing home with longstanding history of dementia who is now violent towards staff. But could be younger as well, with known psychiatric history.