UKPASTUDENT

Uk physician associate student, here to help and answer questions plus give an insight of my journey of becoming a physician associate.

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Abdominal Pain Grid

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Learn this. Know this.

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When I got my first stethoscope :

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Some causes of haemoptysis. Divided into haematological (red), infectious (green) and malignant (purple) causes. 

I’m really proud of the slice of cheese in the TB granuloma. Official way of depicting TB from now on. 

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FIRST DAY AT MY GP PLACEMENT!!!!

*BUZZING*

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A quick lesson on x-ray anatomy of the thoracic cavity. 

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How a human lung is kept alive and breathing for a transplant

Lung in a box. Very cool.

To extend the time an organ can last before it’s transplanted into a recipient, engineers have developed the Organ Care System — which is essentially a box pumping blood and oxygen to the lung.   

As Gizmodo explains: 

What’s especially neat about the OCS is that they can actually be used to improve imperfect donor lungs by flushing it with antibiotics and nutrients. Like refurbishing a lung, sort of. Putting donor lungs through the OCS helps increase and improve the number of potential donor lungs. Not every donor lung is usable, donor lungs that go through the OCS may be.

Learn more about lung transplants at Al Jazeera America. 

(ht ASAP Science)

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Natural Killer Cell attacking cancer cell.

By Dr. Rupert Handgretinger

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HAPPY PA WEEK!!!!

A very happy PA week to all of my amazing PA colleagues!! May you find this profession as rewarding as I have all these 30 years  — I have been SO blessed to have met such a wonderful segment of human society who share ideals, compassion, energy, empathy and sympathy for their fellow man, working long crazy hours for the small rewards that make it all worthwhile.

I applaud each and every one of you!