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Hospital Conditions/Severe Warning Symptoms

What is it?

  • This section is regarding whether one should go to hospital or not, it should be used as a guide and does not substitute for medical advice from a healthcare professional.
  • Check your symptoms by answering ‘yes or no approach’
  • Beware of CPR and when to use it
  • Check serious medical conditions that need to be referred to a hospital

Red Flag Symptoms

  • Red-flag symptoms can be general (e.g. weight loss or fatigue) or specific (e.g. coughing up blood) and act as an alert of potentially sinister pathology.
C. Ramanayake RPJ, K. Basnayake BMT. Evaluation of red flags minimizes missing serious diseases in primary care. J Family Med Prim Care. 2018;7:315. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_510_15
  • Red flags are not diagnostic tests; their main role is that they raise suspicions of a severe underlying cause.
C. Ramanayake RPJ, K. Basnayake BMT. Evaluation of red flags minimizes missing serious diseases in primary care. J Family Med Prim Care. 2018;7:315. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_510_15
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Detailed Information

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