Offers answers for a range of adult and pediatric conditions. This book summarizes tests for most diseases, explains what the results mean, and discusses differential diagnoses. It includes additional tests based on molecular biology, data on the use of genetic tests, and many diagnostic laboratory tests in chemistry.
Data Interpretation features in all clinical assessments in medical school and on hospital rotations. This book contains subject-based chapters giving notes on how to deal with the kinds of data that doctors need to interpret in every day practice. It includes tables, diagrams and flowcharts and each chapter features Don't forget' boxes.
Includes the 70 commonly encountered medical conditions and presents workup plans for each, giving students, residents, and practitioners quick and focused guidance. This book covers the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for various conditions.
Practical and Professional Clinical Skills sets out the full range of clinical skills that medicine students must be able to demonstrate to become effective medical professionals. Compiled by editors with expertise in clinical skills education, the book has a focus on professionalism, and on treating the patient with respect, dignity, and kindness.
A tool that contains age-specific immunisation schedules and algorithms, timing of vaccination and revaccination, and a list of available vaccines. It provides what is needed to make accurate clinical decisions at the point of care including key points.
This book provides a comprehensive account of statistical methods for the design and analysis of diagnostic studies, including sample size calculations, estimation of the accuracy of a diagnostic test, comparison of accuracies of competing diagnostic tests, and regression analysis of diagnostic accuracy data.
This new edition continues to instruct the medical student on all the modalities of investigation available to practising clinicians. It includes details of how to interpret each investigation, followed by a wide range of examples highlighting common patterns that should be recognised with a variety of scenarios to test understanding.
Offers a review of the areas of clinical lab science, including the standard areas, such as hematology, chemistry, hemostasis, immunohematology, clinical microbiology, parasitology, urinalysis, lab management, lab government regulations, and quality assurance.
This new handbook digests and presents the key trials influencing current clinical practice, selected and summarised by figureheads in the medical and surgical specialties. The handbook format allows readers to quickly access and assimilate the evidence behind the practices and interventions experienced every day.
Problem-based learning (PBL) places formal emphasis on the teaching and development of medical problem-solving skills. This book examines the nature of the clinical reasoning process, its development in relation to clinical expertise and the methods available for its assessment and evaluation.
A manual that describes in step-by-step fashion how to perform orthopaedic and neurologic tests. It begins with decision trees of the orthopaedic examination of the various anatomic areas, followed by brief descriptions of the anatomic areas, with accompanying drawings.
Despite advances in statistical approaches towards clinical outcome prediction, these innovations are insufficiently utilized in medical research. This book provides information on how modern statistical concepts and regression methods can be applied.
Decisions of when to order and how to interpret diagnostic tests form the cornerstone of medical care. This book highlights some pitfalls in diagnostic reasoning in this regard, and emphasizes strategies to incorporate clinical and diagnostic information, including uncertainty therein, to optimize diagnostic reasoning.
Offers students, residents, and practitioners a systematic approach to differential diagnosis of symptoms and signs seen by primary care physicians. This text is organized by symptoms and signs and into categories - pain, mass, bloody discharge, non-bloody discharge, functional changes, and abnormal laboratory results.
Deals with diagnosis on a molecular level, discussing molecular biological techniques used to identify the underlying molecular defects in inherited disease. This book includes pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics relating to different cancer therapies.
Increased public expectation and technological advances make diagnosis trickier than ever. This book offers evidence-based approach to the diagnostic process and focuses on interaction between doctor and patient. It is useful to the family doctors and other healthcare professionals in the primary care team.
Provides a series of tutorials in the problem-based approach to clinical medicine, as against the more common disease-based emphasis of most textbooks. This book covers a range of signs and symptoms as they are encountered in clinical practice and discusses them. It contains illustrated case histories and diagnostic algorithms.
Reaching a provisional diagnosis is the most difficult part of any General Practitioner (GP) consultation. The subsequent formulation of a management plan is often straightforward. This book focuses entirely on formulating likely diagnoses rather than the investigation or management of them.
Suitable for non-medically qualified practitioners, particularly those working in the field of manual therapy, this book provides guidance through the minefield of signs and symptoms with which clients commonly present. It helps practitioners to arrive at the correct diagnosis and to become aware of issues which do not fit the diagnosis.
This new volume in the Toolkit series is designed for clinicians and junior researchers who need to interpret the evidence for the effectiveness of the many diagnostic tests now available. Exceptionally user-friendly, this pocket-sized textbook realizes readers are not experts in diagnostic test interpretation.
Presents a collection of clinical cases arranged by clinical area. This book emphasizes the key diagnostic features of clinical conditions as commonly presented in the short case part of the Final MB examination and the OSCE-style exam called PACES for the MRCP examinations.
Covers a variety of specialties, including cardiology, neurology, dermatology, endocrinology, tropical medicine, haematology, metabolic medicine, radiology, ophthalmology, venereology and infectious diseases. This book presents the relevant investigations corresponding to each case in an easy-to-read Q&A format concerning diagnosis and management.
. Covering over 100 of the symptoms most commonly found in primary care, this latest, fully updated edition features new entries including failure to thrive and febrile children, anxiety, hip and knee pain, and mouth lumps and marks, all explored through the 'red flags', 'top tips' and 'ready reckoner' format for sorting symptoms.
Conventional medicine and new branches of biomedicine are challenging many issue-related questions: How reliable are biomarkers for any given pathology? How to distinguish between the highly predictive power of innovation and quackery in diagnostics? This book addresses these issues and provides some clues for plausible solutions.
Presents the state of Noninvasive Instrumentation and Measurement in Medical Diagnosis (NIMD) art and science. Featuring technologies along with traditional instruments, this book describes how these non-invasive tools and techniques work and explores developments that make NIMD simpler, more reliable, less expensive, and risk-free.
Explaining and clarifying the molecular techniques used in diagnostic testing, this book covers the principles of molecular biology along with genomes and nucleic acid alterations, techniques and instrumentation, and applications of molecular diagnostics. It includes illustrations and tables.
An aid for students, practicing nurses, and allied health professionals learning ECG interpretation. This book presents a guide to rhythm strip analysis and contains over 500 actual ECG strips to enhance the skills needed for ECG interpretation. Two post-tests and an answer key appear at the back of the book. It also includes the ACLS guidelines.
Focuses on imaging of the head-and-neck. It highlights key diseases and provides a guide to differential diagnosis of various conditions. It covers correlations with CT and PET images and anatomic variants to distinguish those from the presence of disease.
Offers the clinically relevant information you need in various settings. This title contains test entries that include, where relevant, alternate or abbreviated test names; type of test; normal findings; possible critical values; test explanation and related physiology; contraindications; potential complications; and interfering factors.
Covering various tests, this title includes: alternate or abbreviated test names; type of test; normal findings; possible critical values; test explanation and related physiology; contraindications; potential complications; interfering factors; procedure and patient care; and, abnormal findings.
Offers guidance on diagnostic and laboratory testing for health professionals in both academic and clinical settings. In this title, the tests are presented in a format that includes normal findings, indications, contraindications, potential complications, interfering factors, procedure and patient care, test results, and clinical significance.
Provides students with advice about how to prepare for and carry out their clinical OSCE examinations in general medicine. Giving examples of how to carry out the clinical examination, this book covers the key practical skills required for the OSCE exam as well as giving an overview of the communication skills section.
Contains drawings and digital CXRs, together with secrets from the radiologists toolbox, helpful differential diagnoses, handy checklists, and key references. With a practical approach based on a clinical format, this book provides the useful knowledge needed for a logical approach to the analysis of the CXR.
Offers a study aid to Part II of the MRCP examination; the Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills or PACES. Featuring a 'case study' format that matches the style of the exam, this title includes the essential information - suitable for on-the-ward revision and study.
Describes the practical skills various clinicians must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans. This book shows you how to: talk with a patient; take the history from the patient; examine a patient; and, use investigations to support or refute your differential diagnosis.
A compilation of 75 cases, this book provides basic science coverage of relevant material that is frequently tested on USMLE Step 1. Each case is introduced by the patient's presenting complaint, a brief history, physical, and laboratory data. A differential diagnosis provides a means to synthesize the historical and physical data.
Provides guidance on diagnosis in general practice, from the patient's first presentation with a symptom to the final establishment of a diagnosis or referral for further investigation. This book also explains the principles of evidence-based diagnosis and demonstrates the power, and the difficulties, of an evidence-based approach.
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are commonly encountered at all levels of medical school including the final MBBS examination. This book discusses 170 commonly encountered OSCE scenarios, with a step-by-step approach to maximise your chances of success in the examination.
Intends to teach an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that fresh methods and investigations are grafted onto established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra. This book places emphasis on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and the essential skills needed for clinical examination.
Offers an approach to health assessment for the pediatric client. This title begins with a general description of history taking and includes approaches to children at various ages, nutritional assessment, and measurement and evaluation of vital signs. It focuses on 'how to' information, including how and what to assess in each body system.
A useful reading for candidates for the MRCPath examination and similar postgraduate examinations in clinical biochemistry. It gives an overview of the acquisition of data, as well as concentrating on clinical aspects of the subject, giving detailed coverage of conditions where clinical biochemistry is used in diagnosis and management.
Suitable for medical students, junior doctors, trainee radiologists, and practising clinicians, this title explain how to interpret images; provide guidelines for interpreting images; discuss common diseases and the signs that can be seen using each imaging modality; and illustrate clinical problems with normal and abnormal images.
Presents the different aspects of clinical chemistry for the senior clinical medical student or junior doctor on the ward. This book explains the rationale underlying the common clinical chemistry tests to request and gives guidance as to what action is required on receipt of abnormal results.
Focuses on various aspects of clinical microbiology - bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and virology. This edition includes practical guidelines for cost-effective, clinically relevant evaluation of clinical specimens including extent of workup and abbreviated identification schemes. It also features over 600 color plates of organisms.
This novel resource uses cases, illustrating the most common presentations in acute general medicine and surgery, to teach a logical step-by-step approach to diagnosis. It is a perfect companion throughout a medical course, from easing students into their clinical placements to Finals preparation.
A practical guide to consultation skills for any health professional working in primary care. This book presents the key features of most of the established consultation literature. It reviews an array of teaching and learning methods. It covers PUNs and DENs, working with colleagues, case discussion, role play and video in practical ways.
When a patient presents to a clinician, it is vitally important for that doctor to be able to differentiate quickly and correctly between the various diseases to which the presenting symptoms may be attributed. This work provides the clinician with assistance in this regard. It is arranged alphabetically, based upon presenting symptoms.
Clinical assessment is at the heart of medicine. This book is for every health professional who has to assess patients under time constraints, such as general practitioners, A&E doctors, nurse practitioners, hospital doctors on-call and in busy outpatient clinics, as well as advanced medical students preparing for their final exams.
Offers you a fast way to recap on things you need to know to get through the exams. This title covers the common diseases and disorders you are likely to see in the clinical situation. Each chapter commences with learning objectives and contains Hints and Tips boxes and Communication boxes.
Teaches the artful science of the patient interview and the physical examination - from the fundamentals to the most advanced levels. This book describes methods in step-by-step detail, with clinical pearls, vignettes, practical clinical experience, personal history, explanations of the physiologic significance of findings.
A reference tool that contains diagnosis and classification comments, microbiology of DFIs, a diagnostic and treatment algorithm, drug therapy, dosing information, patient monitoring, and counselling points. It provides what is needed to make accurate clinical decisions at the point of care including key points.
Considers what happens to the body's chemistry when affected by disease. This book stresses how clinical chemistry relates to the practice of medicine by incorporating over 100 real patient case histories. Complemented by 100 full colour line illustrations, it provides self assessment material based on clinical vignettes.
Covers the basics of performing breast MRI exams, setting up a breast MR program, and understanding clinical indications. This work also discusses breast interventional procedures, including the surgeon's use of MR and MR-guided needle interventions. It also includes a comprehensive diagnostic atlas that addresses various clinical situations.
Divided into sections, each dealing with a different aspect of the consultation process, covering the general observation of the patient, aspects of the case history, physical evaluation and specific systemic examination procedures. This workbook forms a part of the therapist's continuing professional development portfolio.
Lists nearly 200 symptoms, physical signs, laboratory test results, and radiologic findings and their differential diagnoses. This book features two-color design, tabs indicating sections, and shortened lists of the common diagnoses. It includes a section on HIV infection that covers manifestations, including immune reconstitution syndrome.
This one-stop guide to data interpretation is ideal for exam preparation or use in the clinic. It covers the material students and trainees need most -- normal physiological values, ECGs, X-rays, and CT scans. Taking a system-based approach to differential diagnosis, the book helps the user make sense of common medical data.
Contains chapters submitted from leading experts from academia and clinical laboratory science. Featuring leading experts from academia and clinical laboratory science, this volume emphasizes novel laboratory advances with application to clinical laboratory diagnostics and practical basic science studies.
Facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. This title features comprehensive algorithmic decision trees that guide you through more than 245 disorders organized by sign, symptom, problem, or laboratory abnormality.
Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is written for inexperienced clinical students who are new to the wards, and helps them to use their patients to learn medicine. It aims to transform students who know a bit about the medical sciences into young doctors who can draw knowledge and experience together to diagnose and treat real patients.
Filled with information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders to help deliver the best patient care, this medical reference features clinical focus on each disorder, as well as specific guidance on patient examinations. Designed for maximum clinical usefulness, it makes it easy to find the right information, right when you need it.
Teaches students the steps in history taking, which is the most important part of the clinical examination. Focusing on the patient interview, this book is organised by specific complaints, and talks about the patients encountered in a clinical or office setting.
Offers guidance on selecting, performing, and evaluating results of various laboratory tests. This title provides encyclopedic coverage that details the information you need to know, including: analytical criteria for the medical usefulness of laboratory procedures; variables that affect tests and results; and, applications of statistical methods.
With updates in the biochemical underpinnings of metabolic medicine and the integration of laboratory findings with clinical practice, this classic textbook retains its focus on clinical relevance and is updated with illustrations and case histories throughout.
Examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. This book provides coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. It includes chapters that discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, and more.
Describes a method of pulse assessment. This book provides an insight into this system of diagnosis drawing upon the traditions of Chinese medicine, the knowledge of biomedical constructs and the relationship of each to contemporary TCM clinical practice. It contains sections on reliability and validity of pulse diagnosis.
Provides access to facts on more than 1, 000 medical and surgical conditions. This reference is indexed with over 7, 500 terms and medications to help clinicians locate information and includes an ICD-9-CM code index. Coverage of each problem includes basics, diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and miscellaneous considerations.
Explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs, and demonstrates that your interpersonal awareness is just as essential in physical diagnosis as your level of technical skill. This title features a DVD that demonstrates how to examine adult male and female patients.
Through insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variability is more indicative of health than is an average. This work explores how the idea of an average value has been misapplied to medical phenomena, distorted understanding and lead to flawed medical decisions.
Presents clinical cases in a problem solving manner. Composed of in-depth dissections of case scenarios, and their appropriate investigations, this book brings an international perspective to a variety of specialties, including gastroenterology, neurology, rheumatology, respiratory and the cardiovascular system.