Decoding Medicine

  40YR OLD MALE WITH SOB AND PEDAL EDEMA This is an online E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent. Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs. This E log book also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment 40 yr old male , driver by occupation presented to the opd with the chief complaints of- • SOB since 4 days (grade 3-4) • pedal oedema since 4 days • cough since 4 days • abdominal distention since 4 days • decreased urine output since 4 days even after taking spironolactone. HOPI: He was apparently asymptomatic 3yr back. The patient is a chronic alcoholic and had similar complaints every time he presented to our hospiatl opd partly due to not tak...

  <Disclaimer: This is an online E logbook to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent. Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from the available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence-based inputs. This E logbook also reflects my patient-centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on the comment > This blog was prepared with the help of valuable inputs and under the guidance of  Dr Vaishnavi ma'am and Dr Manasa ma'am A 60yr old female who was a daily wage laborer but has been a homemaker for the past 10 yrs was wheeled into the casualty with the  Chief complaints :  Shortness of breath (grade -IV) since yesterday History of present illness :  2 months prior to admission she had complained of decreased urine output, dribbling of urine associated wit...

  Question 1: Competency tested for Peer to peer review and assessment :  Please go through one particular answer of ten students in this link: https:// generalmedicinedepartment. blogspot.com/2021/06/ bimonthly-formative-and- summative_19.html?m=1 and share your peer review of each answer with your quantitative marking input as well as qualitative insights into what was good or bad about the answer.  Answer : Case  link  https://soumyanadella128eloggm.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-55-year-old-female-with-shortness-of.html BLOG 1 LINK:  https://vignatha45.blogspot.com/2021/05/medicine-blended-assignment-may.html Quantitative inputs The history was well presented chronologically It would have been better to explain how the anatomical location correlates clinically like why this patient had pedal edema if only bronchi and bronchioles were affected? Brief info about each pharmacological and nonpharmacological technique was given but the specific mechanism of action o...