Medicine · History + examination

Breathless for a year

Hard

15 min station · 2 min reading · Curtin Year 5

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2 min reading · 15 min station · reminders at 2 min

Instructions

You are a medical student on placement in the respiratory clinic. Your next patient is Ron Pavlovic, 69, referred with a year of increasing breathlessness on hills.

  1. Take a focused history

  2. Examine the patient

  3. Outline to the examiner:

    • Your findings
    • Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
    • Next steps in management, including relevant investigations
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Investigations

Examination