Tutorial 26th. March 2012

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We started with a critique of the RCOG's patient information leaflet on genital herpes.
http://www.rcog.org.uk/genital-herpes-pregnancy-information-for-you.

Then we had a roleplay on PMB.
And a viva in which you were to explain how to go about creating a protocol.
Send me your versions of plans for the 1st. and 3rd. tasks and I'll send mine.

Tutorial 19th. March 2012

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We started with a list of laboratory reports the consultant's secretary has asked you to look at.
This station is about administrative management, not clinical management.
You need to be aware of the possible clinical issues to decide the appropriate management and the degree of urgency.
The second was a "breaking bad news" role-play.

 

Laboratory results.

Your consultant is on annual leave.

Her secretary has asked you to look through the following results and decide what action should be taken in relation to each.

+ve MSSU at booking. No symptoms.

GTT at 34 weeks. Peak level 11.5.

FBC with ­ MCV at booking.

Thrombocytopenia at booking. 50,000.

Hydatidiform mole after evacuation of suspected miscarriage.

Histology after ERPC for incomplete miscarriage: no trophoblastic tissue.

Endometrial cancer: hysteroscopy: thickened endometrium. Histology: Anaplastic malignancy.

Endometrial cancer: MR scan: reaching serosa and upper endocervical canal.

Consultant does lap drainage of normal looking ovarian cyst. Malignant cells. Nulliparous. Wants children.

HVS: trichomonas.

Clue cells on smear. 12/52 pregnant.

Antenatal discharge: endocervical swab: chlamydia

Actinomyces on smear.

Herpes in pregnancy

Severe dyskaryosis on cervical smear at booking.

Primary infertility: FSH & LH ­ at 25 on day 3 of cycle.

Primary infertility. FSH 3, LH 12 on day 3 of cycle.

Treated with cabergoline for ­ prolactin and pituitary adenoma.

+ve beta HCG.

3 cm. ovarian cyst. ­ Ca 125.

“Miscarriage” → ERPC. Histology report: Decidual reaction. No trophoblastic tissue seen.

Roleplay.

Break bad news. Primigravida. 8 weeks. Some bleeding. Scan = IUP. CRL = 12 mm. No fetal heart activity. Counsel.

Tutorial 15 March 2012

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We started with a chat about preparing for the OSCE and then did a labour ward prioritisation scenario as I had messed up the recording of this part of the tutorial on Monday.

We then criticised a GP letter and went on to trying to remember the "Ten Top Recommendations", discuss forceps and audit.

Monday. 0900 hours.  You have just come on duty.

1	Mrs A	Para 0+0	25 yrs	41 weeks. In labour 12 hours. Cx 8 cm. No progress for 4 hours. "Dips" reported on CTG
2	Mrs B	Para 1+2	31 yrs	28 weeks. Just admitted. "Show" + contractions
3	Mrs C	Para 5+3	40 yrs	In labour 8 hours. Cx 6 cm. dilated
4	Mrs D	Para 1+3	27 yrs	37 weeks. Diabetes. Admitted ½ hour previously. Previous Caesarean section.
5	Mrs E	Para 1+2	32 yrs	40 weeks. Previous 9 lb. baby. In the second stage for 1 ½ hours.
6	Miss F	Para 0+0	15 yrs	34 weeks. Concealed pregnancy. In labour. Just admitted. Breech presentation
7	Mrs G	Para 1+2		26 weeks. Admitted with severe abdominal pain
8	Mrs H	Para 2+1		39 weeks. In early labour.
9	Mrs I	Para 1+0		Delivered two hours previously by Caesarean section for severe pre-eclampsia. Diastolic BP / 110. Urine output 50 ml. since delivery
10	Mrs J	Para 1+0		Normal delivery + PPH >1,500 ml. one hour ago

Medical staff:

Consultant:               in his Rooms.

You:                            Registrar.

Foundation Year 2  six months’ experience.

Registrar in anaesthetics.

Midwifery staff:

Senior Sister.

Two staff midwives.

One community midwife.

Two student midwives.

The Medical Centre,

Green Lane,

Broadforth-on-Sea.

Your ref: BRI 07/54843.

Re. Jennifer Houseside,

45 The Maltings,

Broadforth-on-Sea.

Dear John,

It was wonderful to see you and Mary again on Saturday and so kind of you to invite us. The meal was up to Mary’s high standards and the company convivial. We may be getting older, but Mary’s fragrant beauty does not diminish.

Please see this woman who complains of unacceptably heavy periods. She is huge, malodorous and is more like a whale than a human being. One can see how the family name originated! I do not envy you the task if you feel that you have to examine her.

She is as stupid as she is fat. I doubt that she has more than one brain cell. If she has, they are not inter-connected. She talks incessantly and brings complete sense of the old adage “empty vessels make most sound”. Despite the vacuum in her cranium she is awash with idiotic ideas most of which she gets from her monumentally stupid mother. She is too thick for logical reasoning to have any impact on her ridiculous views – you might as well attempt a philosophical discussion with your dog.

The father is a dirty, unpleasant sort and I would not be surprised if incest had contributed to their low IQs. If the human race has advanced though evolution and natural selection, what on earth were their ancestors like?

They are social parasites. None of the family has ever worked and they live off Social Security payments. I have had the misfortune to have to do the occasional home visit to various members of the family. They live in disgusting squalor. If they were pigs their living conditions would give the species a bad name. Theirs are houses in which you wipe your feet on the mat as you leave and not as you enter and pray that you never have to visit again. I am sure the Court of Human Rights would regard a second visit as a cruel and unnatural punishment. They always ask you to sit, but I would not wish to ruin my clothes. Their hospitality also extends to offering cups of tea. Perish the thought! I would rather take my chance with neat hemlock.

Despite living on Social Security payments, they have the latest widescreen TVs and associated DVD equipment. The husband looks to me as though he indulges in low-level crime, probably shoplifting. He is a shifty character whom you would not trust and I strongly advise you to make sure that all valuables are locked up and out of sight when he or any of her family is around. One brother is in prison for theft to feed a heroin habit, which typifies the contribution this family makes to the greater good. Her sister is said to be a prostitute and I would think it true. Certainly she has a lot of children and I doubt that any of them have the same father or that she would be able to enlighten them as to who their fathers might be. She (the sister) is a regular visitor to the Sexually Transmitted Diseases clinic where she displays a surprising range of conditions needing treatment. She is a one-woman update course for the staff ensuring they are abreast of all aspects of STDs. I was going to say she was a one-woman refresher course, but there is nothing refreshing about her. The sister is as fat and ugly as my patient, making one marvel at the mentality of her clients. I cannot imagine how anyone would want to come within smelling distance of her, far less have sexual relations and pay for the privilege. Some exotic form of masochism, I guess.

I wish you well in your dealings with her and apologise for sending such an unpleasant lump to your clinic. This is a family that makes you wish the Abortion Act could be made retrospective!

Please do your best not to send her back to see me.

Yours sincerely,