Urgent Care Core Skills, Optimise Your Ten Minutes: Is it Gout or Septic Arthritis?
A session exploring the importance of how to differentiate between a common primary care pathology and a potential orthopaedic emergency.
Learning outcomes:
- Take a concise and time-efficient history from an MSK patient in an urgent care setting, including eliciting red flags, psychosocial flags and ICE
- Discuss an effective examination routine for identifying key differences between gout and a septic joint
- Learn how to have relevant conversations and explain matters effectively with your patient
- Formulate a NICE approved management plan, including appropriate investigations, referral, safety net & GP follow-up