Oncology · History + examination

Numb fingers on chemotherapy

Medium

8 min station · 2 min reading · UWA Year 4

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2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min

Instructions

You are a medical student on placement in the oncology day unit. Your next patient is Gail Treloar, 58, here for her next cycle of chemotherapy, who mentions that her fingers and feet feel numb and tingly.

  1. Take a focused history

  2. Perform a focused examination

  3. Discuss your most likely diagnosis and management plan with the patient

  • Please verbalise your examination; findings will be provided on request
  • You do not need to summarise your findings to the examiner
  • You do not need to request investigations
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