Gastroenterology - Patient assessment with Ian Allwood - Part 2

Send us Fan MailRichard and Emma welcome back Dr Ian Allwood who is a GPwSI in gastroenterology.  We would highly recommend listening to episode one where Ian discus's his process to assess abdominal pain. Dr Ian Allwood discus's gastroenterology patient presentations which include perinate history taken, appropriate examination and investigations.  The cases include :- Change in bowel habit,Nausea / vomitingand rectal bleeding.  Please follow us on twitter for updates @FCPParamedicpodAlways great to here comments about the episodes.  Our guests give up their time to record these episodes so please feel free to leave feedback on the episode.As always special thanks to Martin and Scott for your assistance.Primary Care Society for GastroenterologyPCSG – The Primary Care Society for GastroenterologyIngest podcast - from the PCSGIngest Podcasts – PCSGCoventry and Warwickshire Training HubHome - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)College of ParamedicsPrimary and Urgent Care (collegeofparamedics.co.uk) Rome Criteria Rome IV Diagnostic Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - MDCalcNICE DG30 for Quantitative Faecal Immunochemical Test Overview | Quantitative faecal immunochemical tests to guide referral for colorectal cancer in primary care | Guidance | NICENG12 Guideline for suspecting cancerRecommendations organised by site of cancer | Suspected cancer: recognition and referral | Guidance | NICEOffer testing with quantitative faecal immunochemical tests NICE diagnostics guidance on quantitative faecal immunochemical tests to guide referral for colorectal cancer in primary careRecommends to assess for colorectal cancer in adults without rectal bleeding who:are aged 50 and over with unexplained:abdominal pain orweight loss, orare aged under 60 with:changes in their bowel habit oriron-deficiency anaemia, orare aged 60 and over and have anaemia even in the absence of iron deficiency.Joint guideline from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in patients with signs or symptoms of suspected colorectal cancer (CRC): a joint guideline from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) | Gut (bmj.com)Patient advice for FIT fit_symptomatic_patient_leaflet_feb2022.pdf (cancerresearchuk.org)