List of contributors |
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Foreword by Pete Nightingale |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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1 Preparation for the Clinical Viva |
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2 The Short Cases |
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture |
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Airway blocks in the context of awake fibre-optic intubation |
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Analgesia for circumcision |
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Anticoagulants and neuraxial blockade |
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Bariatric surgery and drugs for obesity |
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Carbon monoxide poisoning |
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
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Clearing the cervical spine in the unconscious polytrauma victim |
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Complex regional pain syndrome |
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Diabetes: peri-operative management |
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Electro-convulsive therapy |
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Heart block and temporary pacing |
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Heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia |
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Hypertension and ischaemic heart disease |
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Infantile pyloric stenosis |
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IVRA for Dupuytrens contracture and LA toxicity |
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy |
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Local anaesthesia for carotid endarterectomy |
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Major obstetric haemorrhage |
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Massive blood transfusion |
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Mitral valve disease (chest X-ray) |
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Paediatric day-case surgery |
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Paediatric fluid management |
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Phaeochromocytoma peri-operative management |
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Post-operative hypotension |
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Problems of the premature baby |
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Raised intracranial pressure |
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Statistics errors in the interpretation of data from clinical trials |
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Stridor post-thyroidectomy |
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Uncontrolled hypertension |
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Unexpected difficult intubation |
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WolffParkinsonWhite syndrome |
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3 The Long Cases: 'The one about...' |
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1 ...the woman with a goitre for an emergency laparoscopy |
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2 ...the man with pneumonia who needs a laparotomy |
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3 ...the woman with a melanoma on her back |
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4 ...the man with hypertension and AF who needs a total hip replacement |
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5 ...the young, thyrotoxic woman listed for a thyroidectomy |
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6 ...the RTA with a flail chest |
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7 ...the chesty, obese man having a laparotomy |
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8 ...the old lady with a fractured humerus |
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9 ...the obese woman with a fractured neck of femur |
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10 ...the asthmatic child with torsion |
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11 ...the man for a total hip replacement with a history of previous DVT |
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12 ...the diabetic man for TURP |
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13 ...the stridulous woman for oesophagoscopy |
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14 ...the collapsed drug addict |
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15 ...the elderly woman with kyphoscoliosis for an urgent cholecystectomy |
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16 ...the elderly woman for cataract extraction |
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17 ...the guy with chronic back pain |
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18 ...the smoker with bellyache and sepsis |
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19 ... atrial fibrillation post AAA repair |
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20 ... pre-op assessment of IHD |
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21 ...the manic depressive for a dental clearance |
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22 ...the unconscious O/D in A&E |
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23 ... a craniotomy in a patient with neurofibromatosis |
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24 ...the head-injured patient |
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25 ...the trauma patient in accident and emergency' |
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Appendix 1 A system for interpreting and presenting chest X-rays |
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Appendix 2 Interpretation of commonly occurring PFTs |
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Index |
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