Index

Here is a list of blogs on this site. You can also find them using the search function. I hope they are helpful.   HRT and anaesthesia Managing and preventing diabetes Diabetes and anaesthesia Breast feeding and anaesthetic drugs Preventing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) Anticoagulants and surgery Preassessment Anaemia and low iron Allergies under anaesthesia… Read more »

HRT and anaesthesia

Medical education has been slow to catch up with the menopause. I was taught nothing about the menopause at medical school and generations of women have suffered the insidious onset of a myriad of symptoms which has severely affected their quality of life for up to a decade. Fortunately this is changing. Phoenix Hospital Group… Read more »

Why covid vaccination is still important

You may well ask why I am writing about Covid vaccination in 2022. In the developed world at least the majority have been vaccinated and BA2 has such a high R value (the number of people one patient will infect) that 95% of US residents have antibodies from either being infected or being vaccinated.. Omicron,… Read more »

Screening

We are realising that preventative medicine is as important as treatment. I have recently posted blogs on over-the-counter drugs that we might give to people without disease as well as a blog on healthy living. To complete my thoughts on preventative medicine, I wanted to post on health screening I am a great believer in… Read more »

Covid

  It is now May 2021 and time to revise this blog. Sadly we are seeing the number of worldwide infections continuing to increase due in the main to politicians failing to identify and act on the problem in October 2019, failing to isolate epidemics in January 2020 and failing to close international borders. Many… Read more »

High blood pressure or hypertension

  Hypertension simply means high blood pressure. It is very common with over a billion cases worldwide. Up to 25% of people have hypertension and many are unaware of it because it produces no symptoms and causes no problems for many years. It is commoner in some ethnic groups, in men, in those with western… Read more »

Over the counter drugs

  Lots of people take vitamins, minerals and other remedies they buy from health shops – so called ‘over the counter’. It is a massive industry – estimated to be worth £1.86b in the UK alone. Is this just clever marketing? The fact remains that a normal varied diet in the UK will provide all… Read more »

Anaemia and low iron

  Anaemia is an abnormally low level of haemoglobin in the blood. Haemoglobin carries oxygen but the red cells also maintain the fluid balance around the body. Anaemia is relatively common and even in the developed world exists in up to 5% of the population. It is now agreed that the ideal haemoglobin for major… Read more »

Index

  Here is a list of blogs on this site. You can also find them using the search function. I hope they are helpful.   Managing and preventing diabetes Diabetes and anaesthesia Breast feeding and anaesthetic drugs Preventing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) Anticoagulants and surgery Preassessment Anaemia and low iron Allergies under anaesthesia Nausea and… Read more »

Managing and preventing diabetes

  This blog will provide general advice about type two diabetes. There is another blog on my website describing how we manage diabetic patients in the perioperative period.   There are two types of diabetes: type I occurs when the insulin producing cells in the pancreas are destroyed. The reason is unknown although viral infections… Read more »