PART

2
Assessment of common
presenting problems
Abdominal pain.....................................................26
Breast lump...........................................................44
Chest pain.............................................................48
Coma and altered consciousness........................70
Confusion: delirium and dementia........................76
Diarrhoea...............................................................88
Dizziness...............................................................94
Dysphagia ..........................................................106
Dyspnoea............................................................110
Fatigue.................................................................128
Fever....................................................................136
Gastrointestinal haemorrhage: haematemesis
and rectal bleeding..........................................148
Haematuria..........................................................156
Haemoptysis.......................................................160
Headache............................................................164
Jaundice..............................................................172
Joint swelling.......................................................182
Leg swelling........................................................186
Limb weakness...................................................196
Low back pain.....................................................210