GP placement student toolkit
- Publication date:
- 07 October 2021
- Date range:
- N/A
Red flags
Knowing your red flags is essential as it is vital to the proper management of a patients condition. Red flags helps a clinician to screen patients from sinister pathologies. This is important so that patients can be directed to appropriate care.
General:
- Constant pain that gets progressively worse
- General malaise
- Unexpected weight loss
- Night sweats
- Widespread change of sensation
- Pain Bilaterally
Cervical:
- 5 D's and 3 N's
Lumbar:
- Saddle Anaesthesia or bowel and bladder incontinence