1. An Overview of History Taking:
Common Surgical Condition
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2. OUTLINES
Overview
Common surgical conditions presenting at OPD
History taking in specific body systems
Skin and subcutaneous tissue
Head and neck
Thorax and lungs
Heart
Peripheral vascular system
Breasts and axillae
abdomen
Male genitalia and hernia
Female genitalia
KUB system
Anus, rectum, prostate
Musculoskeletal
nervous
3. OVERVIEW
Clear history taking: precise triage
Excluded emergency condition that require to be at ER
Materials:
Identification data: age, gender, source of history, source of referral
Reliability
Chief complaint (CC)
Present illness
Past history
4. The Seven Attributes of the Symptom
1. Location: อยู่ส่วนไหนของร่างกาย
2. Quality: มันรู้สึกยังไง
3. Severity: ปวดให้คะแนนเท่าใด รบกวนชีวิตประจาวันมากขนาดไหน
4. Timing: เป็นมานานเท่าไหร่
5. Setting in which it occurs: ขณะที่เป็น กาลังทาอะไรอยู่
6. Exacerbating factors: อะไรทาให้อาการแย่ลง
7. Associated manifestations: มีอาการอะไรอีกบ้าง
6. Skin and subcutaneous tissue
Mass:
abscess
Tumor-like lesion: inclusion cyst, lipoma, fibroadenoma
Neoplasm: sarcoma, SCC, BCC, melanoma, breast cancer, phyllodes tumor
Cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis
Wound and ulcers
7. Body mass
Attributes/disease abscess Tumor-like lesion neoplasm
Location Any: axilla Any: back, breast and
extremities
Any: face, breast
Quality ปวดบวมแดงร้อน Lumping ulcerative
Severity Painful Painful if infection on top Painful if infection on top
Timing Acute (days) Chronic (years) months
Setting Trauma Spontaneous Radiation
Factors Trauma none radiation
Other manifestations fever none lymphadenopathy
8. Cellulitis and Necrotizing Fasciitis
Attribute/disease Cellulitis NF
Location Legs and arms Legs and arms
Quality ปวดบวมแดงร้อน ปวดบวมแดงร้อน + crepitus + hemorrhagic
bleb
Severity urgency Emergency, require aggressive
emergency debridement
Timing days 1 day
Setting Trauma, DM Trauma, DM, cirrhosis
Factors Spontaneous trauma
Other manifestations fever Septic shock
9. Wounds and Ulcers
Attribute/disease
Location Usually legs and feet
Quality หนึบๆ จี๊ดๆ แสบๆ
Severity Usually painful accept DM foot
Timing Can be acute (trauma) or chronic (underlying disease present)
Setting Can be trauma (major and minor) or spontaneous
Factors นั่งห้อยขาหรือยกขาแล้วดีขึ้น
Other manifestations Fever
11. Thyroid Nodule
Attribute/disease
Location Midline neck mass ขยับตามการกลืนน้าลาย
Quality ไม่เจ็บ ถ้าเจ็บจะเป็น thyroiditis, compressive symptom: อึดอัดคอ, dysphagia, dyspnea
Severity หายใจโล่งดีหรือไม่ ถ้าไม่ ER
Timing Months to years
Setting อยู่ในพื้นที่ขาดไอโอดีน หรือ radiation exposure
Factors None
Other manifestations Fever, tachycardia, depression, weight change
12. Thorax and Lungs
Trauma: blunt or penetrating chest injury เจ็บอกและมีประวัติ trauma
Disease: empyema thoracis, CA lung, CA breast with lung or pleural metastasis
14. CA lung
Attribute/disease
Location Chest
Quality Chest pain, chronic cough with weight loss (DDx TB)
Severity ไม่ fever
Timing Months
Setting Chronic smoking
Factors Chronic smoking
Other manifestations Weight loss
15. CA breast with lung or pleural metastais
Attribute/disease
Location Chest
Quality Pleuritic chest pain with underlying CA breast
Severity No fever
Timing May be present during CA breast treatment or after 10+ years
Setting Underlying CA breast
Factors Underlying CA breast
Other manifestations dyspnea
17. Great vessels
Attribute/disease
Location Severe chest pain with hypovolemic shock
Quality เจ็บจี๊ดๆ เจ็บไปหมด ดิ้นทุรนทุราย
Severity Severe
Timing Minutes
Setting BP สูง มี underlying aneurysm อยู่แล้ว
Factors BP สูง
Other manifestations Hypovolemic shock, alteration of consciousness
20. Acute limb ischemia
Attribute/disease
Location มักจะเป็นที่ขา
Quality Severe pain, ชา, ซีด, อ่อนแรง, ขาเย็น, paresthesia
Severity Severe pain
Timing Hours to days (<14 days)
Setting AF on warfarin ไม่ได้ระดับ, AAA with emboli
Factors None
Other manifestations ปัสสาวะสีโค้ก
21. Breast and Axilla
Breast mass
Breast abscess
Axillary lymphadenopathy
Axillary abscess
22. Cellulitis and Necrotizing Fasciitis
Attribute/disease Cellulitis NF
Location Legs and arms Legs and arms
Quality ปวดบวมแดงร้อน ปวดบวมแดงร้อน + crepitus + hemorrhagic
bleb
Severity urgency Emergency, require aggressive
emergency debridement
Timing days 1 day
Setting Trauma, DM Trauma, DM, cirrhosis
Factors Spontaneous trauma
Other manifestations fever Septic shock