Mnemonics
From Paeds.co.uk the online paediatrician's encyclopaedia
Do you know a good Mnemonic? Add it to this page
See also the related page:
Contents |
Pain Enquiry – ‘SOCRATES’
- Site
- Onset
- Character
- Radiation
- Alleviating factors
- Time course and periodicity
- Exacerbating and precipitating factors
- Severity
- Associated symptoms
- Frequency
- Progression
Structured Essay Answer - Disease
“In A Surgeon's Gown Good Physicians May Make Some Progress”
- Incidence
- Age
- Sex
- Geography
- Genetics
- Predisposing factors (risk factors)
- Macroscopic appearance
- Microscopic appearance
- Spread
- Prognosis: mortality and complications
Edward's Syndrome
EDWARDS:
- Eighteen (trisomy)
- Digit overlapping flexion
- Wide head
- Absent intellect (mentally retarded)
- Rocker-bottom feet
- Diseased heart
- Small lower jaw
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 diagnostic criteria
CAFE SPOT:
- Cafe-au-lait spots
- Axillary, inguinal freckling
- Fibroma
- Eye: lisch nodules
- Skeletal (bowing leg, etc)
- Pedigree/ Positive family history
- Optic Tumor (glioma)
Facial Nerve CN VII Branches
"Two Zulus Buggered My Cat"
Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Masseteric, Cervical
Rash with Infection
Very Sick People Must Take Early Retirement
- varicella; rash appears on day 1
- scarlet fever - day 2
- pox (small) - day 3
- measles - day 4
- typhus - day 5
- enteric fever (typhoid) - day 6
- rubella days - 1-7
APGAR score
APGAR neonatal score:
- A: Appearance (colour)
- P: Pulse
- G: Grimace (response to stimulation)
- A: Activity (tone)
- R: Respiration
Add a mnemonic here
Text
