How to undertake key clinical tests, make effective diagnoses and develop logical clinical reasoning.
Clinical Skills, Diagnostics and Reasoning provides detailed coverage of the history and examination of all major body systems. It will be an essential resource as you start on the wards.
Key features:
- an engaging and authoritative style – with everything you need in one place
- realistic clinical cases – these show how skilled clinicians work through a presentation, and put disease and biomedical principles into context
- extensive range of photographs – superb clinical photos show exactly how to undertake a broad range of examinations and tests
- starter questions – stimulating questions and answers to test your knowledge and highlight the level of detail you need
- study boxes – these highlight tips, tricks and key learning points
Designed to take you from the lecture theatre to the ward – from anatomy and physiology to typical clinical cases and how they are assessed.
By fully integrating basic science and clinical medicine, Clinical Skills, Diagnostics and Reasoning will equip you with the core knowledge and skills you will need for exams and placements!
The book is ideal for medical students and Advanced Clinical Practice courses.
Inhoudsopgave
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Consultation and communication skills
2 Clinical reasoning
3 The general examination
4 Cardiovascular system
5 Respiratory system
6 Gastrointestinal system
7 Genitourinary system
8 Female reproductive system
9 Nervous system
10 Cranial nerves and ophthalmology
11 Musculoskeletal system
12 Psychiatry
13 Endocrine system
14 Paediatrics
15 Critically ill patients
16 Special circumstances
Appendix: Figure acknowledgements
Index
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