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Presentation covering Erythroderma from a 4th year medical student perspective. We give a differential diagnosis and talk about the management of erythroderma.  

A synopsis of common interstitial lung diseases  

This tutorial covers the key facts in a child presenting with acute abdominal pain.  

Video produced by St Georges University outlining the respiratory examination.  

Video produced by St Georges University outlining the Abdominal examination  

Examination of the Thyroid Gland produced by St Georges University  

Dysphagia Ben Savage  

This is a podcast on the Clinical Pharmacology that is relevant to the treatment of cardiac failure. In this podcast we shall be covering the therapeutics of: * Acute/Decompensated cardiac failure * Chronic cardiac failure Once again we shall be using this as a means to discuss certain drugs, here ACE-inhibitors, ARBs, beta-blockers, spironolactone and digoxin.  

QUIZ  

Obs&Gyne test with detailed answers.  

Loads of questions to test your Obs and Gynae knowledge!  

 

Everything you need toEverything you need to know about Medicalknow about Medical Education:Education: Well AlmostWell Almost Catherine HydeCatherine Hyde  

A presentation I gave to AAU team in our teaching. A brief basic overview of alcoholic liver disease and the use of Terlipressin in Variceal bleeds - the cochrane review is used for evidence base.  

 

Brain exploration and automatic testing  

Osce Results After Voluntary Self-Training in a Simulation Laboratory at Granada Medical School Dr. C. Chung, J Florido, D Gonzalez, A Vilchez y JM Peinado Dpt…  

Karaganda State Medical University’s involvement to AMEE activities since 2004 is allowed to understand the international trends in medical education, theory, practise and research in medical education, meet the AMEE experts, complete ESME, RESME, ESTEME, ESMEA AMEE Courses by KSMU’s medical teachers that encouraged to establish the collaboration with some UK, US Leading Universities  

This PA Chest X-Ray demonstrates a left sided pleural effusion. In this condition fluid collects between the parietal and visceral pleura and appears as a shadowy fluid level on the X-Ray with obliteration of the costophrenic angles. If you were to examine this patient they might be in respiratory distress from reduced oxygen uptake (so have low sats, high resp rate, possible cyanosis and accessory muscle useage) - they may have reduced chest expansion on the affected side and it would be stony dull to percussion. Fluid transmits sound poorly so breath sounds would be decreased as would vocal resonance/fremitus. Someone with consolidation may have very similar clinical findings but the underlying area of lung is almost solid due to pus from the infective process - as sounds travel well through solids they would have increased vocal fremitus which is how you can clinically differentiate between the two conditions. Clinical examination and understanding of conditions is paramount to practice effective medicine. Before you recieved this X-Ray you should be able to diagnose the condition and use the X-Ray to confirm your suspicions.  

In this Chest X-Ray we can identify a left sided pneumothorax - there is absence of lung markings in the periphery and we can also see a shadow which outlines the edge of the lung. A pneumothorax is caused when air enters the potential space between the viceral and parietal pleura and causes the lung to collapse down under the pressure of it's elsatic recoil. In this case it is likely that the pneumothorax has been caused by trauma as we can see air in the soft tissues on the left side (surgical emphysema - clinically feels like bubble wrap). A pneumothorax can be a life threatening condition. The patient presents in respiratory distress with decreased expansion on the affected side. There will be hyperresonance to percussion on that side but absent breath sounds. The emergency treatment is decompression with a large bore cannula in the 2nd intercostal space mid-clavicular line followed by insertion a chest drain in the 5th intercostal space mid-axilllary line