Be alert to the risk factors that predispose pregnant women and infants to vitamin D deficiency and subsequent nutritional rickets.
Nutritional rickets is an entirely preventable disease
At every clinical engagement, collaborate with families so they flourish.
Use an accredited interpreter and not a family member.
Be mindful of the family’s health literacy and language
Neuropathies are common and usually easy to diagnose with a focused clinical approach.
The clinical and neurophysiological classification of neuropathies into axonal and demyelinating
Schizophrenia presents with a range of symptoms beyond hallucinations and delusions.
Antipsychotic medications will enable good control over positive symptoms and disorganisation for
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in Australia.
CBT for insomnia (CBTi) is the recommended first-line treatment and can assist in a gradual withdrawal program from sedatives
Routinely consider a diagnosis of PID in all women of reproductive age who present with recent onset lower abdominal pain.
Initiate presumptive PID treatment promptly after excluding
Consider haemolysis in the workup of anaemia in the outpatient setting, with clues to this process available on FBC and biochemistry testing.
Haemolytic anaemia may occur as result of
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