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Returning home after another excellent #EHRA2025 congress. As always, an opportunity to catch up with colleagues, collaborators and friends in a beautiful city! The highlights included the Faculty Dinner and the wonderful choir and our registrar Sam Williams winning the runner up prize in the Clinical Cases Awards for his presentation! Already excited for Paris next year! @EHRAPresident@BHIBristol@uhbwNHS@Dr_SamWilliams
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🎊For episode 99 we have welcomed a BIG DOG 🐶 in the world of clinical reasoning and Med Ed: Professor Nicola Cooper!
👨⚕️@Dr_SamWilliams & @Cooper00Nicola talk through the pearls & pitfalls of clinical reasoning!
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‼️Happy Sunday listeners!
🎧A brilliant episode coming later today on something hugely applicable to both PACES and critical in our day to day clinical practice!
👨⚕️A real boon of a guest too!
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@Dr_SamWilliams welcomes along Dr Yezen Samaraiee, neurology SpR to discuss....
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🎧A brilliant episode with tons of learning points for your PACES!
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Thanks Sam @prepacespodcast for having Josh and I back to chat about Decision Fatigue, surviving the night shift and medical rules for life!
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@AmieBurbridge@DrBenLovell We discussed how to look after yourself, as well as your team recently! ⬇️
- Take breaks as a team if possible (especially on night shifts)
- Be approachable & enable your team to work at their peak capability
- Find small pockets of teaching
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🗣️Dysphagia🗣️
Alternative investigations...for example the patient won't tolerate or are not suitable for an upper GI endoscopy
🌟 Barium / oral contrast swallow offers live action of the oesophageal motion which can be especially helpful for neuromuscular or anatomical causes
🗣️Dysphagia🗣️
☢️Investigations
📷With a history of progressive dysphagia, an upper GI endoscopy should really be your most important diagnostic test 📷
🩸Bloods obviously important:
- Microcytic anaemia (or anaemia of chronic disease)
- Liver function
- Clotting
🗣️Dysphagia🗣️
🩺Examination
- Consider neck examination or palpation of a neck lump
- If suggestion of a neuromuscular causes then may want to focus your examination for a specific diagnosis, e.g. checking for fatiguability in the case of myaesthenia gravis