Can you answer:

1. What is intermittent claudication?
2. How to measure ABPI?
3. Uses of ABPI?
4. How to prepare for CTA?

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✅ History taken
✅ Class by Consultant
⭕ Read Bailey

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Format

• Specific Symptoms
• D-SAC
• Sample History
• Ix and Mx
• Theory (Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology)

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Specific Symptoms

1. Type of Claudication (Arterial, Venous, Neurogenic)
2. If arterial, Caludicant or critical ischaemia (rest pain [pain at night] or ulcers)
3. Progression
4. Site
5. Risk factors
6. Other systems

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Hx of Present Complaint (D-SAC)

• SOCRATES-P

• Aetiology (risk factors, family hx)

• Complications (Local, locoregional and distant spread)

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History

Mr. Jamis … ?

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Examination

General ….

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Ix and Mx

• Investigations

ABPI

Video available at PWCM –> Stanford –> ABPI

https://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/the25/ankle.html

ABPI Uses – https://bpac.org.nz/bpj/2014/april/ankle-brachial.aspx

CT Angiogram

• Management

Critical Limb Ischaemia (Rest pain or tissue loss) needs Intervention.

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Theory

• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Pathology

 

References

Fontaine classification : https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Leriche-fontaine-classification_tbl2_257531839