What is the origin of the pain?
Introduction In oncology patients, locating the source of a given pain is important to control the symptom. This requires a
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Category: Clinical Reasoning
Case analysis under the concepts of Diagnostic Improvement, showing the cognitive and systemic biases implicated in a Diagnostic problem.
My face is fading away. What happens to me? The importance of a mechanism for a Diagnosis
Objectives We want to show here two key aspects in the Clinic when an uncommon situation is in the origin
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Why Can Right Heart Failure be Mistaken for Sepsis? A Clinical Reasoning Exercise
Objective In this article, we want to show the importance of knowledge of Anatomy and Pathophysiology in clinical reasoning, presenting
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Situational Awareness: The Missing Link?
We introduce here concepts about Situational Awareness, and the possible aplication in the theory of improving the Diagnostic Process
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Situational awareness:Haematuria while standing, pain while lying down. Two mysteries solved
A 70-year-old patient came to the hospital with haematuria leading to anaemia. He had a previous diagnosis of urothelial bladder
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Everything is Written in Books, but you have to choose: Wernicke, Hypothyroidism? Or both?
Clinical Summary We introduced here the clinical case of a-50-year-old male patient with a diagnosis of an epithelial cavum carcinoma,
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