Investigations resources for healthcare professionals
Explore practical and peer-reviewed clinical content on investigations, developed for professionals who need to stay ahead of current guidance. Whether you're updating your appraisal portfolio, preparing teaching materials, or managing complex presentations, this section is a reliable, well-organised reference point.
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- Abnormal liver function tests
- Achalasia
- Acid-base balance
- Acute-phase proteins, CRP, ESR and viscosity
- Alpha-fetoprotein
- Apolipoproteins
- Arterial blood gases - indications and interpretation
- Assessing renal function
- Barium enema examination
- Bilirubinuria
- Blood cultures
- Brain natriuretic peptide
- Cancer antigen 125
- Carcinoembryonic antigen
- Cardiac catheterisation
- Cardiac enzymes and markers for myocardial infarction
- Cardiac investigations
- Cerebrospinal fluid
- Cervical screening
- Chest X-ray - systematic approach
- Cold agglutinins
- Complement deficiencies
- Computed tomography
- CT head scanning indications
- Diagnostic imaging and scans
- Drug prescribing in renal impairment
- ECG a methodical approach
- Eosinophilia
- Folate deficiency
- Globulins
- Glucose tolerance tests
- Glycated haemoglobin
- Glycosuria
- Haematuria
- Haemodilution
- Haemolytic anaemia
- Hypercalcaemia
- Hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Hyperkalaemia
- Hyperkalaemia in children
- Hypernatraemia
- Hyperoxaluria
- Hyperprolactinaemia and prolactinoma
- Hyperviscosity syndrome
- Hypocalcaemia
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypokalaemia
- Hyponatraemia
- Imaging of the urinary tract
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- International prostate symptom score
- Iron-deficiency anaemia
- Jaundice
- Lactic acidosis
- Lipid-regulating drugs
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Managing non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (pre-diabetes) in primary care
- Metabolic acidosis
- Meyer-Betz syndrome
- Microalbuminuria
- Non-obstetric ultrasound scanning
- Obstetric ultrasound
- Orthostatic proteinuria
- Osmolality, osmolarity, and fluid homeostasis
- Paraproteinaemia
- Peripheral blood film
- Pituitary function tests
- Plain abdominal X-ray
- Plain skull X-ray
- Plasma autoantibodies
- Prenatal screening for Down's syndrome
- Prostate specific antigen
- Proteinuria
- Rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria
- Rheumatoid factor
- Self-monitoring in diabetes mellitus
- Sickle cell disease and sickle cell anaemia
- Sterile pyuria
- Thrombocytopenia and platelet function disorders
- Thrombocytosis
- Thyroid function tests
- Tumour markers
- Urine dipstick analysis
- Urine ketones - meanings and false positives
- Urodynamic studies