Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Diagnosis

This bestselling volume in The RequisitesT Series provides a comprehensive introduction to timely ultrasound concepts, ensuring quick access to all the essential tools for the effective practice of ultrasonography.

Comprehensive yet concise, Ultrasound covers everything from basic principles to advanced state-of-the-art techniques. This title perfectly?fulfills the career-long learning, maintenance of competence, reference, and review needs of residents, fellows, and?practicing physicians.

Take the guesswork out of image documentation with Pocket Protocols for Sonography Scanning, 4th Edition. This compact new edition provides protocols that follow the imaging guidelines of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), including a universal method for documenting any type of pathology. Examples of the required images for the physician's diagnostic interpretation are included. Documentation specifics are provided for full and limited abdominal studies, gynecological and obstetric exams, and prostate evaluations. Also provided are protocols for small parts,...

In recent years the field of picture archiving and communications systems - PACS - and image informatics has advanced due to both conceptual and technological developments. This book is the ultimate reference work by the founder of PACS and image informatics, Dr. H.K. "Bernie" Huang. The new third edition of this well-received book on this growing subject addresses the latest in PACS, from the electronic patient record to the full range of topics in digital imaging. Thoroughly revised but building upon its two previous editions, the third edition uses the framework of image informatics,...

This new book for medical students contains over 60 of the most commonly encountered OSCE stations in medicine and surgery. The OSCEs are arranged according to type of skill; for example history-taking, ethics and communication, physical examination. This is an accessible book for students under pressure who are revising for a clinical OSCE. It provides simple advice, tips about preparation, and will be easily understood. It provides sample OSCE station questions and simulated patient scripts (with answers) for practice at home.

Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face...

Die korperliche Untersuchung ist die Basis jeder Diagnose.
170 aussagekraftige zweifarbige Zeichnungen illustrieren die notwendigen Untersuchungstechniken und -schritte und bereiten mit dazugehorigen pragnanten Texten optimal auf den Berufsalltag vor. Daruber hinaus definiert der Autor klar den Unterschied zwischen Symptom und Diagnose und verweist immer deutlich auf Normalzustand vs. pathologischen Zustand eines Patienten. Ein gesondertes Kapitel stellt auerdem die Geschichte der korperlichen Untersuchung dar. In die 2. Auflage wurden zudem wichtige orthopadische Untersuchungen und...

The new book is the definitive text on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), providing an easily accessible account of the breadth and depth of experience gained worldwide from its use in a wide range of contexts and in different phases of education.? The lessons learned from these diverse experiences are included throughout the text.

Used globally in all phases of education in the different healthcare professions, the OSCE was first described by the lead author, Harden, in 1975 and it is now the gold standard for performance assessment.?

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is...

Since the first edition of this book was published, much new knowledge has been gained on hemangiomas and vascular malformations.This revised and updated second edition, written by worldwide leaders in the field, fully reflects this progress.

Important improvements in the treatment of hemangiomas are reviewed, including the use of beta-blockers and other medical therapies as well as advances in interventional treatments and the treatment of hemangiomas in specific locations.

Vascular malformations are being investigated with increasing frequency all over the world and new...