Showing posts with label obstetrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obstetrics. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Obs and Gynae pocket doctor template

this is the gynae history from the POCKET DOCTOR booklet:

INTRO

CHECK
Patient name and age

PRESENTING COMPLAINT

HISTORY OF PRESENTING COMPLAINT

1. BLEEDING
menarche
period regularity
heavy? if yes: pad changing per day/flooding/clots/tiredness
LMP
IMB/PCB/PMB
Discharge: if yes: colour, smell

2. FERTILITY
Sexual contacts
STI's
contraception: barrier and birth control
HRT if post-menopause
Pregnancy attempts
Smears: last date and result
Breast screening

3. PAIN
Painful periods? at what part of cycle
Painful sex? On penetration/during

4. UROGYNAE
Prolapse: dragging sensation/something 'coming down'. Back pain.
Urinary: incontinence? relation to coughing/sneezing/straining
Urinary symptoms: freq, noct, dysuria, strangury, hameaturia, unable to interrupt stream.
Bowel habits: esp change in habits.

OBSTETRIC HISTORY
Pregnancies: date delivered, mode, weight, problems.
Miscarriages: gestation?
Termination: gestation, reason?
ectopics

PAST MEDICAL HISTORY
esp gynae operations

DRUG HISTORY

FAMILY HISTORY

SOCIAL HISTORY

summary
address pesky concerns

[Kindly written up by a friend]