Sound Diagnosis: A Harmonized Approach

ISBN-13: 9781846192081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 170 str.

Maria Ribeiro; Gerard Hoffnung

Opis

Sound Diagnosis to the rescue - a little prompt at the bedside, when you need sound guidance to see through a hazy clinical picture and make sense of a problem in the most lucid and confident way. How will you benefit from this diagnosticum? As your bedside companion it will: * Shed bright light on unclarified diagnostic pictures * Encourage use of a systematic method of diagnosis * Structure and simplify diagnosis * Help you define a problem * Make you notice and respond to diagnostic key pointers * Direct your energies to the core of the problem * Give your knowledge an opportunity to surface * Make you more aware and open to reading signs of disease * Serve as a ward-round guide * Keep you fresh and motivated with each case * Tie up the loose ends, enabling you to complete a diagnosis

Spis treści

Assess your patient's problem FIRST. An overview of what lies ahead - constructing a diagnosis. A guided clinical case presentation. The 'Basicologists'. The Haematologists. The Rheumatologists. The Cardiologists. The Nephrologists. The Pulmonologists. The Gastroenterologists. The Neurologists. The Endocrinologists. The Gerontologists. In retrospect, what will I remember?

O autorze

Maria Ribeiro, Annetta Hoffnung, Susan Miles