This article provides a step-by-step guide to explaining a colonoscopy in an OSCE setting, including information you will be expected to give and how...
This article provides a step-by-step guide to explaining a gastroscopy (endoscopy) in an OSCE, including information you will be expected to give and how...
Introduction
Crohn’s disease is a chronic, relapsing-remitting, non-infectious inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract.
It is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an umbrella term...
Introduction
This article is intended to provide healthcare students with an overview of jaundice, which includes potential causes (pre-hepatic, hepatic and post-hepatic), examination findings, investigations...
Introduction
Biliary colic, cholecystitis, and acute cholangitis are common conditions that affect the biliary system, usually due to gallstones. These conditions represent a spectrum of biliary...
Introduction
There are two main types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
Although both share many similarities in the signs, symptoms...
This guide provides an overview of the recognition and immediate management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) using an ABCDE approach.
The ABCDE approach is used to systematically assess an acutely unwell patient. It involves...