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Alcohol
| Clinical Discipline(s)/Organ System(s) Population Health, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Psychiatry/Health Psychology | Progress Test Topic(s) General duties |
Description
The government has established an inquiry into the damage to health caused by alcohol, and steps that can be taken to prevent harm. Your specialist college wishes to make a submission and you have been asked to prepare the first draft.
Progress Test-Type Questions: Question 1Applied Science for Medicine
- Pathophysiology of alcoholic cirrhosis, dementia and neuropathy
- Anatomy of liver and portal circulation
- Physiology of the coagulation cascade and reticulocyte cycle
- Pathophysiology of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
- Toxicology of alcohol; tolerance, dependence and withdrawal mechanisms
- Pathophysiology of alcoholic cirrhosis, dementia and neuropathy
- Anatomy of liver and portal circulation
- Physiology of the coagulation cascade and reticulocyte cycle
- Pathophysiology of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
- Toxicology of alcohol; tolerance, dependence and withdrawal mechanisms
Clinical and Communication Skills
- Elicit a history from and examine a patient with, jaundice, alcohol withdrawal, haematemesis
- Interpret routine blood investigations including full blood count, renal function and liver function tests
- Interpret biochemistry results of an ascitic tap
- Management of alcohol withdrawal, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Understand the role of the medical practitioner and public health physician
- Complications of excess alcohol intake
- Elicit a history from and examine a patient with, jaundice, alcohol withdrawal, haematemesis
- Interpret routine blood investigations including full blood count, renal function and liver function tests
- Interpret biochemistry results of an ascitic tap
- Management of alcohol withdrawal, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Understand the role of the medical practitioner and public health physician
- Complications of excess alcohol intake
Personal and Professional Skills
- Self care - understanding the effects of alcohol
- Professional obligation and ethics involved when you suspect a colleague is drinking excessively
- Self care - understanding the effects of alcohol
- Professional obligation and ethics involved when you suspect a colleague is drinking excessively
Hauora Māori
- Culturally safe engagement with this patient, her Whānau and communities
- Culturally safe engagement with this patient, her Whānau and communities
Population Health
- Advocacy role of medical professionals
- Purpose of government enquiries and characteristics of effective submissions
- Burden of disease attributable to alcohol
- Social and ethnic distribution of harm caused by alcohol
- Options for prevention of disease and injury caused by alcohol
- Cost-effectiveness of interventions
- Major obstacles to implementation
- Advocacy role of medical professionals
- Purpose of government enquiries and characteristics of effective submissions
- Burden of disease attributable to alcohol
- Social and ethnic distribution of harm caused by alcohol
- Options for prevention of disease and injury caused by alcohol
- Cost-effectiveness of interventions
- Major obstacles to implementation
Conditions to be considered relating to this scenario
Common
alcohol abuse/dependence, alcoholic liver disease
alcohol abuse/dependence, alcoholic liver disease
Less common but 'important not to miss'
hepatocellular carcinoma
hepatocellular carcinoma
