All Journals from Neil Patel
There is no ‘gold standard’ non-invasive test to diagnose myocarditis. It is a clinico-histopathological diagnosis.1 Clinical manifestations include: heart failure, chest pain (from either pericarditis or angina from coronary artery spasm/inf lammation), sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias (sinus tachycardia, ectopics, ventricular tachycardia, heart blocks). Examination may reveal raised JVP, pulmonary crackles, a gallop rhythm or a pericardial rub.
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A 28 year old gentleman presented after an episode of collapse with loss of consciousness.
He gave a history of non-specific malaise and myalgia over the previous 7 days, with fever, a generalised rash and a non productive cough. He developed progressive shortness of breath with sharp, pleuritic chest pain that was unresponsive to antibiotics in the community.
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Introduction: Survey to ascertain views of Acute Internal Medicine trainees regarding their training programme.
Methods: Online survey circulated to higher specialty trainees (HSTs) via the Society of Acute Medicine (SAM), Training programme Directors (TPDs) and social media platforms.
Results: A total of 57 trainees participated in the survey; 43.86% trainees are either ‘happy’ or ‘very happy’ with their training, 10.53% are ‘quite unhappy’ with their training. Trainees enjoy the variety of workload and the variety of specialist exposure.
Discussion: The number of trainees who responded to this years survey was significantly lower than the previous two years. Perhaps this is because trainees feel that there is a lack of change/improvement over time and hence do not feel the need to participate in such a survey.
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SAM Cardiff
The SAM Cardiff meeting at the Mercure Hotel was well attended and it was great to catch up with many AIM trainees.
The autumn international conference was jointly hosted with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh last September which allowed our speciality to reach a wider audience. The Conference was well attended with a large number of high quality posters on display. Full Text File size: 50 KB Downloads: 798