2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
Instructions
You are a medical student on placement in the emergency department. Your next patient is Shane Haddow, 42, a crane operator presenting with a week of low back pain that now runs down both legs and, since yesterday, trouble passing urine.
1
Take a focused history
2
Examine the patient
3
Outline to the examiner:
Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
Next steps in management, including relevant investigations
You do not need to summarise your findings
Please verbalise your examination; findings will be provided on request
Practising alone? Ask the examinerFindings appear only when you ask for them
Investigations
Examination
After treatment
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