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Blurring of vision with malaise
We present the case of a 56-year-old female brought to the Emergency Department via routine ambulance transport with complaints of blurred vision and malaise. She was screened by ambulance crew using the facial arm speech time (FAST) tool and a basic top-to-toe assessment as per current routine. The examining practitioner performed a thorough assessment of the patient, revisiting the initial examination findings, and establishing new clinical features of visual field deficit and pan-systolic murmur. The likely diagnosis of septic emboli or stroke with infective endocarditis was identified through the power of rigorous hist...
Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - April 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mansoor Zafar Ratan Singh Randhawa Barnaby Peacock-Young Reem Eldebri Umesh Dashora Source Type: research
Standardising care for heart attack (STEMI) patients, Ireland
Under a reform agenda, the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland initiated the National Clinical Programme for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in 2010, as a joint venture with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). Early attention was focussed on treatment of patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) as treatment varied nationally depending on distance from a Cardiac centre offering 24/7 primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) (direct clot removal), a more effective treatment with less complications but requiring specialised facilities compared with thrombolysis (clot dissolving drug ...
Source: International Journal of Integrated Care - August 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Compliance with national guidelines for stroke in Radiology
Publication date: Available online 14 September 2015 Source:Operations Research for Health Care Author(s): Izabela Komenda, Vincent Knight, Hannah Mary Williams Stroke is a medical emergency, and if patient outcomes are to be optimised there should be no delays in accessing treatment. This project focuses on the application of Operational Research methodology to investigate how a hospital can comply with the revised computerised tomography (CT) scanning guidelines for stroke. Such guidelines, released by the Royal College of Physicians recommend a 50% reduction in time from hospital admission to report of a CT head sc...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - September 14, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Plenary - what do imaging studies tell us about functional symptoms
Professor Anthony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He also has a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology. He has been an honorary consultant at the Maudsley since 1990 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London in 1996. He was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry in 2013.
Professor David has a wide and diverse range of research interests including schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry, medically unexplained syndromes and neuroimaging – both structural and f...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 13, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Stroke, Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia), Somatoform disorders PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS - DAY 3 Source Type: research
