Author: Andrew Charlton / Editor: Mark Winstanley / Reviewer: Andrew Charlton / Codes: SLO1 / Published: 23/12/2021
A final year medical student presents to the Emergency Department describing 3 episodes of frank haematuria. He is caucasian, 25 years old and describes a history of recent mild fever, which he attributed to a viral illness. He is otherwise well, denies dysuria or any other urinary symptoms. He has not had any abdominal pain. He is low risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections and he describes passing red-stained urine 3 times in the last 24 hours. He does not have any other past medical history and does not normally take any medications. He denies any problems with bruising and hasn’t noticed any rash. He does not have any family history of any illnesses.
Module Content
Management of Haematuria
This session covers the management of patients who present to the emergency department with macro or microscopic haematuria.
Tropical Diseases
Next to be seen is a 35 year old male, returned from Ghana, presenting with muscle pain, headaches, a history of fever and diarrhoea
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
This session looks at the techniques available to collect urine samples from children in an emergency department. It discusses the evidence basis and the relative merits of each technique
13 Comments
very informative
Excellent bite size topics
Very useful topic
Very useful
Useful revision . Thanks
A very good case to remind unshod to deal with tropical disease like Schistosomiasis
Very interesting, really useful topic and a reminder to think outside the box.
Very Informative
Keeps your clinical broadened when foreign travel is involved
Interesting and refreshes the mind on tropical diseases.
I like it thanks
Haematuria is increasing presentation nowdays
Excellent