Clinical Problems in General Medicine and Surgery

"Clinical Problems in Medicine and Surgery" provides a comprehensive selection of important medical and surgical scenarios. The reader is taken through 66 case histories step by step and is asked to interpret a broad range of medical data. Most of the clinical problems are accompanied by illustrations, which include cardiographs, radiographs, clinical and pathological photographs. In addition to detailed questions and answers, a commentary is provided that highlights the important issues of each case, as well as a guide to further topics of study.

ISBN 0443073236   Pages 432 ISBN13 9780443073236 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Weight (grammes) 735 Imprint Churchill Livingstone   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 04 Aug 2003   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress RC55   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 616   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Normal values
		The Internet
1		Difficulties with postoperative fluid balance in a 65-year-old man		1
2		A middle-aged man with postoperative fever		8
3		Postoperative hypotension		13
4		Postoperative confusion		20
5		Swelling in the neck in a 58-year-old man		29
6		A 26-year-old man with a swelling below the ear		35
7		Swelling in the neck		39
8		A young man with acute scrotal pain		43
9		A scrotal swelling in a 19-year-old man		46
10		A 46-year-old woman with a breast lump		51
11		A skin lesion in a 73-year-old man		57
12		A 27-year-old man with burns		61
13		Dysplagia in a middle-aged woman		69
14		Vomiting and collapse in an elderly woman		75
15		A 77-year-old man with vomiting		81
16		Weight loss in a middle-aged woman		89
17		Abdominal pain in a young woman		95
18		A man with acute upper abdominal pain		102
19		A woman with acute upper abdominal pain		108
20		A 67-year-old woman with acute lower abdominal pain		115
21		A 49-year-old man with abdominal pain and vomiting		120
22		Jaundice in an older woman		126
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"I approached this book, when asked to review it, with some scepticism. The idea of putting together the clinical experience of surgical and medical senior registrars and younger consultants was a good one, but how could it be converted into a worthwhile book, and what would this mean to those who read it?However, the more I read the more impressed I became. The authors have chosen a series of very important acute problems which are likely to be met at some stage by all those working in hospitals. They have conveyed an excellent sense of the clinical picture, giving a reality to the information that is conveyed subsequently. The book is said to be aimed at medical students but the essential information and patterns of thought will certainly be relevant to and appropriate for all practicing doctors who have to deal with acute problems.The authors have appreciated that probably the most difficult thing for clinical students to learn is not the facts relating to pathophysiology but the appropriate pattern of clinical thought, in which history, physical examination and the appropriate use of organ imaging and laboratory data must be combined in the differential diagnosis and integration of problems. They recognise that differential diagnosis must be related to management decisions and identify those situations where emergency management must take precedence over definitive pathophysiological diagnosis in the early stages.The book will be of value to graduate, undergraduate and continuing medical education students if used as a trigger to stimulate appropriate patterns of clinical thought." "J R Lawrence," Medical Journal of Australiawelcome departure from the traditional stodgy medical textbook using the case history approach. Of definite appeal to junior hospital medical staff but General Practitioners should find plenty here to interest them." "Dr JM Sager," Medix-UK, July 2003is the second edition of a popular revision tool aimed primarily at medi

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