Prescribing Advice for GPs

CKS Update - March 2011

March 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm | In Prescribing Extra - Other | Print | No Comments

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) has been updated in March 2011 for the following clinical areas:

• Antenatal care - uncomplicated pregnancy (new)
• Boils, carbuncles, and staphylococcal carriage
• Knee pain - assessment (new)
• Melanoma and pigmented lesions (new)
• Otitis media with effusion
• Paronychia - acute
• Whitlow (staphylococcal and herpetic)

Action: Clinicians who see patients with any of these conditions may find the new and updated information useful when reviewing current clinical practice.