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Informationen zum Autor Dev Banerjee Department of Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospital, Birmingham N. Sukumar Department of Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospital, Birmingham Robert E.J. Ryder is Consultant Physician and Clinical IT Lead at City Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Birmingham. Dr M. Afzal Mir is Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff Dr Anne Freeman is Consultant Physician at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, and Clinical Adviser and Chairwoman of the Welsh Stroke Alliance Klappentext This new edition of An Aid to the MRCP Paces Volume 2: Stations 2 and 4 has been fully revised and updated, and reflects feedback from PACES candidates as to which cases frequently appear in each station. The cases and scenarios have been written in accordance with the latest examining and marking schemes used for the exam providing an invaluable training and revision aid for all MRCP PACES candidates. Zusammenfassung This brand new! fully updated Fourth Edition of this best-selling PACES revision guide is thoroughly reviewed by PACES candidates to ensure complete coverage of Station 2 - History-taking Skills! and Station 4 - Communication Skills and Ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction xiii Section D: History-Taking Skills 1 Station 2, History-Taking Skills 7 1 Abdominal swelling 8 2 Ankle swelling 10 3 Asymptomatic hypertension 13 4 Back pain 16 5 Breathlessness 19 6 Burning of the feet 23 7 Chest pain 26 8 Cold and painful fingers 28 9 Collapse? cause 30 10 Confusion 32 11 Cough 35 12 Diabetic feet 37 13 Difficulty in walking 40 14 Dizziness and feeling faint 43 15 Double vision 45 16 Dysphagia 48 17 Epigastric pain and nausea 50 18 Facial swelling 52 19 Funny turns 55 20 Haemoptysis 58 21 Headache 60 22 Hoarse voice 63 23 Hypercalcaemia 65 24 Hyperlipidaemia 67 25 Jaundice 70 26 Joint pains 73 27 Loin pain 76 28 Loss of weight 78 29 Lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage 80 30 Macrocytic anaemia 82 31 Neck lump 85 32 Painful shins 87 33 Painful shoulders 89 34 Palpitations 91 35 Personality change 93 36 Pins and needles 96 37 Polyuria 98 38 Pruritus 100 39 Purpuric rash 102 40 Pyrexia 104 41 Renal colic and haematuria 107 42 Tiredness 109 43 Tremor 112 44 Visual disturbances 114 45 Vomiting 117 46 Vomiting and forgetfulness 120 47 Weakness of the right arm 123 48 Weight gain 126 49 Weight loss and chronic diarrhoea 129 50 Wheeze 131 Section E: Communication Skills and Ethics 135 Station 4, Communication Skills and Ethics 145 Category 1: Informed Consent 1 Consent for a lumbar puncture 147 2 Consent for oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) 150 3 Emergency surgery under principles of 'best interests' 154 4 A competent patient's refusal of treatment 157 Category 2: Diagnoses and Management Advice 5 Obesity management 160 6 Side-effects of cardiac medication 163 7 Presentation of a first seizure 166 8 Rheumatoid arthritis 169 9 Valvular heart disease in a young woman 172 10 Air travel with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 175 11 Polypharmacy 178 12 Blood transfusion 181 13 Hormone replacement therapy 183 14 Lifestyle adjustments after a...
