History and examination resources for professionals
This professional section focuses on history and examination, offering in-depth content for healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management. You'll find articles exploring key clinical considerations, guideline updates, and common challenges encountered in real-world practice. Each piece is written or reviewed by UK clinicians to ensure relevance and accuracy for multidisciplinary teams.
- Abdominal distension and bloating
- Examen abdominal
- Abdominal hernias
- Masas abdominales
- Dolor abdominal
- Abdominal pain in pregnancy
- Abnormal gait
- Abnormal weight loss
- Aching joints - assessment, investigations and management in primary care
- Acute abdomen
- Acute abdominal pain in children
- Retención urinaria aguda
- Alcoholism and alcohol misuse - recognition and assessment
- Genitales ambiguos
- Monitoreo ambulatorio de la presión arterial
- Anaemia of chronic disease
- Antenatal examinations and diagnosis of pregnancy
- Ascites
- Ascites tapping
- Dolor de espalda en niños
- Vértigo posicional paroxístico benigno
- Visión borrosa
- Bradicardia
- Breast lumps and breast examination
- Breast pain
- Falta de aliento
- Broad complex tachycardias
- Bulbar palsy and pseudobulbar palsy
- Cachexia
- Caplan's syndrome
- Dolor torácico de tipo cardíaco en atención primaria
- Historia y examen cardiovascular
- Catatonia and catalepsy
- Catheterising bladders
- Síndrome de cauda equina
- Centile charts and assessing growth
- Cerebellar disorders
- Chest deformity
- Dolor en el pecho
- Cheyne-Stokes and abnormal patterns of respiration
- Choking and foreign body airway obstruction
- Tos crónica en adultos
- Chronic cough in children
- Dolor crónico
- Chronic suppurative otitis media
- Cefaleas en racimo
- Colour vision and its disorders
- Coma
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Conditions affecting the external eye
- Congenital ear problems
- Estreñimiento en adultos
- Cianosis
- Certificación de defunción
- Dehydration in children
- Delirio
- Enfermedades dentales y periodontales
- Depresión
- Dermatological descriptive terms
- Dermatological history and examination
- Diplopia and III, IV and VI cranial nerve lesions
- Fármacos antirreumáticos modificadores de la enfermedad
- Diseases and different ethnic groups
- Mareo, vértigo y sensación de desmayo
- Dysarthria and dysphasia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspareunia
- Dispepsia
- Dysphagia
- Disnea en cuidados paliativos
- Dyspraxia and apraxia
- Dysuria
- Ear, nose and throat examination
- Dolor epigástrico
- Epiphora
- Disfunción eréctil
- Erythema annulare centrifugum
- Eritema nodoso
- Examination of the cranial nerves
- Examination of the eye
- Examination of the spine
- Prueba de tolerancia al ejercicio
- Exophthalmos
- Facial nerve palsy
- Dolor facial
- Incontinencia fecal
- Crecimiento deficiente en niños
- Fatigue and TATT
- Femoral hernias
- Femoral nerve lesion
- Fever and night sweats
- First seizure
- Flashes, floaters and haloes
- Flatulence and wind
- Foster Kennedy's syndrome
- Infecciones fúngicas de las uñas
- Gait abnormalities in children
- Gangrena
- Gastrointestinal history and examination
- Generalised lymphadenopathy
- Genitourinary history and examination - female
- Historia y examen genitourinario - masculino
- Gradual loss of vision
- Síndrome de Guillain-Barré
- Gynaecological examination and history
- Haematospermia
- Hemoptisis
- Halitosis
- Dolor de cabeza
- Healthy child programme
- Pruebas y exámenes auditivos en niños pequeños
- Pruebas de audición
- Heart auscultation
- Heart murmurs in children
- Palpitaciones del corazón
- Espasmo hemifacial
- Hepatomegaly
- Hernia de hiato
- Hipo
- High-altitude illness
- Hip pain in children
- History and physical examination
- History taking
- Hoarseness
- Horner's syndrome
- Hot flushes
- Hot swollen joints
- Hidrocele
- Hiperhidrosis
- Hiperventilación
- Hypnagogic hallucinations
- Hipotermia
- Niño enfermo y febril
- Infant respiratory distress syndrome
- Inguinal hernias
- Insomnio
- International prostate symptom score
- Picazón
- Ictericia
- Jaundice in pregnancy
- Jugular venous pressure
- Knee pain
- Knees that swell
- Left iliac fossa pain
- Dolor en el cuadrante superior izquierdo
- Lentigo
- Leucoplasia
- Loin pain
- Pérdida de libido
- Low back pain and sciatica
- Síntomas del tracto urinario inferior en hombres
- Síntomas del tracto urinario inferior en mujeres
- Bultos
- Síndrome de Marfan
- Medically unexplained symptoms
- Micturition syncope
- Deterioro cognitivo leve
- Mini mental state examination
- Mononeuropathies
- Mother's six-week postnatal check
- Muscle cramps
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Nail disorders and abnormalities
- Narcolepsy and cataplexy
- Taquicardias de complejo estrecho
- Nasal discharge
- Neck lumps and bumps
- Neck pain (cervicalgia) and torticollis
- Neonatal examination
- Ictericia neonatal
- Neurological examination of the lower limbs
- Neurological examination of the upper limbs
- Historia y examen neurológico
- Detección en recién nacidos
- Night terrors and parasomnias
- Nightmare disorder
- Nocturia
- Nocturnal enuresis in children
- Nystagmus
- Síndrome de hipoventilación por obesidad
- Obesidad en adultos
- Obesity in children
- Oliguria
- Optic disc swelling
- Orbital swellings
- Osteochondroses
- Otalgia
- Vejiga hiperactiva
- examen pediátrico
- Historia pediátrica
- Paediatric supraventricular tachycardia
- Painful foot
- Palmar erythema
- Pancoast's syndrome
- Registro de flujo máximo
- Dolor pélvico
- Enfermedad arterial periférica
- Edema periférico
- Persistent nausea or vomiting
- Pierre Robin sequence
- Pigmented purpuric dermatosis
- Polyuria
- Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation of skin
- Post-inflammatory hypopigmentation of skin
- Trastorno de estrés postraumático
- Presbyacusis
- Prevention of falls in elderly people
- Proctalgia fugax and anal pain
- Prolonged diarrhoea or vomiting
- Prominent ears
- Psychiatric assessment
- Ptosis and lid lag
- Mastitis puerperal
- Pulse examination
- Pupillary abnormalities
- Pyrexia of unknown origin
- Raynaud's disease
- Rectal bleeding in adults
- Sangrado rectal en niños
- Rectal examination
- Historia y examen del sistema respiratorio
- Rheumatological history, examination and investigations
- Right iliac fossa pain
- Right upper quadrant pain
- Escalofríos
- Trastornos de las glándulas salivales
- Screening for cognitive impairment
- Dermatitis seborreica
- Secondary headache
- Severe and partial sight impairment
- Shoulder examination
- Dolor de hombro
- Síndrome del seno enfermo
- Six-week baby check
- Síndrome de Sjögren
- Skin and subcutaneous nodules
- Sleep problems in children
- Roncar
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Spider naevus
- Splenomegaly and hypersplenism
- Steatohepatitis and steatosis
- Stokes-Adams attacks
- Strabismus (squint) classification and management
- Strawberry naevus
- Stridor
- Hemorragia subconjuntival
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Supraventricular tachycardia in adults
- Piernas hinchadas
- Sydenham's chorea
- Síncope
- Talipes equinovarus
- Tenesmus
- Tension-type headache
- Thirst
- Dolor de espalda torácica
- Thyroglossal cysts
- Nódulos tiroideos
- Tinnitus
- Toe and finger clubbing
- Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders
- Tremor
- Two-year child development check
- Testículos no descendidos
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Frecuencia urinaria
- Incontinencia urinaria
- Uterine cervix and common cervical abnormalities
- Varicocele
- Venas varicosas
- Vasculitis
- Vértigo
- Vision testing and screening in young children
- Visual field defects
- Voiding difficulties
- Vulvodinia
- Wheezing in children
- Xantelasma