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half of you have heard me rant on SNP-ignorance
i would point you to the first post in this blog for more on the issue
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yesterday 3 out of 5 of you clerked patients with some form of 'collapse'
sheena then went on to present the case of a 64 year old man who 'collapsed' at the bus stop
the first important point was: the terminology is confused & task 1 is to work out which type of collapse the patient is talking about
namely:
- loss of consciousness
- limb weakness
- loss of balance
- vertigo
- light-headedness on standing
see below for half an algorithm from Davidsons
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we mostly talked about loss of consciousness & were tentatively dividing causes into cardiovascular, neurological & other
we did not get round to organising our diagnostic lists properly
we moved on to examining the cerebellar system (see next post)
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