Product Description: Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing, Cleveland, Ohio. Pocket guide to physical examination for nursing students. Quick-reference format.

Product Description: This pocket introduction for first year clinical students starting clinical training on the ward provides basic information about how to talk to patients, take a medical history and how to start a clinical examination. The result of many years of clinical teaching experience at the University of Cambridge, this second edition is clearly thought out...read more

Product Description: Good records are essential in Accident & Emergency medicine for adequate clinical care as well as for medico-legal reasons. This book explains the reasons for keeping good records and describes how A&E records should be kept both in general terms and emphasizes the essential information to be recorded with different mechanisms of injury and in different anatomical sites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This small-format revision text provides the essential information for medical students taking patient's history, performing clinical examination, and presenting clinical cases effectively at examinations, assessments, and clinical meetings...read more

Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills (formerly known as Lecture Notes on History (view table of contents)

This handy, well-illustrated guide provides information on all aspects of the patient examination. It covers history-taking, examination techniques for each body system, and presenting signs and symptoms for common disorders. Color illustrations and color-coded chapters aid in quickly locating critical guidance.Signs and symptoms sections describe the most important diseases associated with each body system. Boxes highlight important information on a range of issues―the elderly, emergency situations, "Questions to Ask". Color photographs and diagrams illustrate examination techniques and clinical manifestations. "Questions to Ask" boxes and advice on what to do in an emergency make important information easy to find.With 2 additional contributing experts.

Product Description: MOSBY'S PRIMARY CARE CONSULTANT focuses on content for primary care practitioners on approximately 300 disorders commonly encountered in the adult patient. This reference features an easy-to-access format to help locate information quickly...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This handy, pocket-sized field guide presents concise, illustrated, step-by-step procedural guidelines for all patient assessment techniques. Its easy-to-use format lists procedure names at the top of each page, and includes coverage of abnormal findings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Knowing what questions to ask in the Emergency Room can save lives and time! Vital Questions to Ask in the ER features the most important questions that need to be asked in order to make a quick and correct diagnosis. Featuring 35 of the most common conditions seen in the ER and marginal notes with the most important questions, Vital Questions to Ask in the ER is the key to taking complete histories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This popular title in the at a Glance series focuses on the core elements of history taking and examination. It makes an ideal companion to clinical attachments and assists in building the fundamental skills required for Finals and for future medical practice...read more

Product Description: This concise, portable manual offers detailed guidance on developing and refining the skills required to take an accurate patient history and conduct a thorough physical examination. 48 specialty-trained physicians cover all 28 medical specialties, enabling the reader to obtain the most conclusive diagnostic information from each patient in any clinical setting...read more

Product Description: The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis helps the reader to interpret symptoms, physical signs and initial test results and to allow students (or doctors not familiar with all aspects of medicine) to arrive at diagnoses logically and to explain their reasoning confidently...read more

Product Description: The role and function of the nurse is rapidly changing, and nurses are now required to undertake a comprehensive clinical examination of patients, a responsibility traditionally undertaken by a doctor. Clinical Examination Skills is an accessible, introductory guide to helping nurses fulfil this role, enabling them to understand the core skills and knowledge needed to assess patients competently...read more

Product Description: Covering the full-range of disorders, this is the first book to help primary care physicians diagnose and treat ear, nose, and throat problems. With 60% of patients seen by primary care physician presenting with ENT disorders, the need for the book is clear...read more

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis is the first and only book that describes the diagnostic process clearly and logically so that it can be effectively learnt. It shows how to justify intuitive diagnoses clearly and logically in an evidence-based way. It provides the differential diagnosis of every symptom, physical sign and initial test result. This handbook uses 'pattern recognition tables' which enable the reader to scan the page to see which diagnostic explanation would apply best to a patient or case history. The book is aimed at medical students and others who wish to improve their diagnostic skills and interactions with patients. It describes how to justify diagnoses and management decisions verbally or in writing and clarifies what evidence is needed from research, and its statistical features. It provides senior doctors with a clear framework and examples help to teach trainees and students to approach diagnostic problems in a logical way and to effectively justify their opinions. It provides all doctors with practical help when dealing with problems outside their immediate field of expertise, especially general practitioners and those who are faced with unforeseen situations and emergencies.

This companion to "Physical Examination and Health Assessment" (2nd ed) covers health history, physical examination, abnormal findings, as well as special considerations such as paediatric, pregnant and ageing populations, and transcultural issues. Key tables from the main text demonstrate the relationship between normal and abnormal findings, and there are step-by-step guidelines demonstrating the skills necessary to take a history and perform a physical examination. Tools are provided for assessing clients of all ages, races and cultures, and a summary checklist of the physical examination is provided at the end of each chapter.

This pocket companion is designed for those who need a practical clinical reference and for those students acquiring beginning nursing assessment skills. Portable and easy to use in the clinical area, it presents the essentials of health history and physical examination as well as listings of related abnormal findings. Special features include development considerations for pediatric, pgregnant, and ageing adult groups, plus selected transcultural considerations.