Although the pediatric eye examination can be made more challenging by inattention, poor cooperation, sleep, or just the wiggles, these should never be justification for an inadequate assessment of the child. In fact, a challenging patient should make the examiner ever more careful to get a good history and to look carefully for potential red flags that should be examined in greater detail. Missing a history of diplopia, or not noticing an abnormal pupil, or blurred disc margins, to name a few, may delay the diagnosis and treatment of potentially life-threatening entities. In this symposium, red flags in the pediatric eye examination will be reviewed in depth with emphasis on diagnosis, testing, and referral.
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J Multidiscip Healthc
January 2025
The Neuromuscular & Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Purpose: Direct access to physical therapy (PT) requires PTs to act as primary care providers, making differential diagnosis a critical component of patient assessment. We investigated how participation in postgraduate training in differential diagnosis and medical screening influences PTs' confidence, self-efficacy, attitudes and beliefs about treating patients with low back pain (LBP).
Patients And Methods: This prospective, two-arm study involved 49 PTs in an intervention group and 70 in a control group.
J Peripher Nerv Syst
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Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
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Methods: Using the European Academy of Neurology/Peripheral Nerve Society (EAN/PNS) 2021 CIDP guidelines we derived 26 clinical and 144 nerve conduction variables.
BMJ Open Gastroenterol
December 2024
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK
Objective: Many people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experience fatigue, pain and faecal incontinence that some feel are inadequately addressed. It is unknown how many have potentially reversible medical issues underlying these symptoms.
Methods: We conducted a study testing the feasibility of a patient-reported symptom checklist and nurse-administered management algorithm ('Optimise') to manage common medical causes of IBD-related fatigue, pain and faecal incontinence.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir, Türkiye.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars
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Department of Cardiology, University of Health Sciences, Sultan II. Abdulhamit Han Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Türkiye.
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