It is common for children to explore and experiment with their gender, but only a small percentage of these children have gender dysphoria, which causes them severe clinically recognised distress.
While mild symptoms such as tremor are well recognised, severe complications including seizures and encephalopathy are poorly documented following renal transplantation.
Although severe anaemia is recognised as a feature of possible colorectal cancer, with a risk of approximately 7% (Logan et al, 2002; NICE, 2005), it is still under-investigated in around half of primary care patients.
The effects of prosopagnosia can be so bad that people with severe cases cannot recognise their own parents or children.Understanding the face-recall mechanism in the brain would be a big step towards understanding this odd disorder.
Although clinicians are able to recognise severe geriatric impairments, their sensitivity to detect moderate impairments or change in functional impairment is imperfect.
As nurses are experienced in recognising severe disease or imminent death, the utility of perceived age ratings might be limited to medical staff.
Parental prior knowledge of the disease was important as the majority of informants (23 out of 29) and participants (69 out of 97) mentioned four combined symptoms that were used to recognise severe malaria.
A Norwegian study by Rehn et al. 30 showed higher ability to recognise severe trauma by anaesthetist-staffed MECU/HEMS but did not differentiate between ground and air units, and did not include under-triage to local hospital.
We undertook a study of newly qualified doctors in a university teaching hospital, to evaluate how effective they were at recognising severe sepsis; and whether a simple intervention could improve their ability to perform this task.
On the basis of MRI findings a large spectrum of severity can be recognised, from negligible to severe.
