Preventive and social medicine Mnemonic (PSM)

B Vitamins

"Train private-first class"
"TRN PFC"
B1 - T hiamine
B2 - R iboflavin
B3 - N iacin (nicotinic acid)
B6 - P yridoxine
B9 - F olic acid
B12 - C yanocobalamin

Assesment of Nutritional Status!!!
Posted by wagingwarlord on 24-Feb-2006
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A=Anthropometric Studies
B=Bichemical Studies
C=Clinical Examination
D=Diet Surveys
E=Ecological surveys
F=Functinal Status
HiV=Health and Vital Statistics

ASHA( ACCREDITED SOCIAL HEALTH ACTIVIST)- ROLES
"ASHA will do INFORMATIVE CME on PDA PROVIDED VILLAGES PROMOTE it."

Informative - Inform about birth, death, diseases
C - Counsel mothers
M - Mobilise the ppl for better access to health facilities
E - Escort preg to facilitate institutional delivery
P - Primary medical care
D - Depot holder
A - Awareness about diseases, health care
Provided - Provider of care for child health etc
Villages - Village Health plan formulation
Promote - Promote construction of sanitary toilets etc

ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN Causes

ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN:
"BAD GUT PAIN" and "ECTOPIC"
B - Bowel obstruction
A - Appendicitis, Adenitis (mesenteric)
D - Diverticulitis
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Dysentary/Diarrhea Drug withdrawal
G - Gastroenteritis
Gall bladder disease/stones/
obstruction/infection
U - Urinary tract obstruction (stone)
infection (pyelo/cystitis)
T - Testicular Torsion
Toxin - Lead, black widow spider bite
P - Pneumonia/Pleurisy
Pancreatitis
Perforated bowel/ulcer
Porphyuria
A - Abdominal aneurysm
IN - Infarcted bowel
Infarcted myocardium (AMI)
Incarcerated hernia
Inflammatory bowel disease
S - Splenic rupture/infarction
Sickle cell pain crisis
sequestration crisis




For FEMALES with acute PELVIC pain, think "ECTOPIC" as well as the above causes
E - Ectopic (This is your priority rule out always)
Endometriosis
C - Cyst rupture (corpus leutium cyst rupture)
T - Torsion of ovary or cyst
O - Ovulation: Mittelschmerz
P - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease,
salpingitis, tubo - ovarian abscess
I - Incomplete abortion
C - Cystitis/pyelonephritis