cover image - Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780443260827
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 09-01-2025
Page Count: 816
Imprint: Elsevier
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Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition

by Steven McGee, MD

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780443260827
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 09-01-2025
Page Count: 816
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $64.99

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Emphasizing the most important physical signs needed to determine an underlying condition or disease, McGee's Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis, Sixth Edition, offers vital insight and instruction on the fundamental clinical skill of physical diagnosis. Internationally renowned author Dr. Steven McGee clearly shows how to pare down the multiple tests needed to confirm a diagnosis, saving both the physician and patient time, energy, and expense. This unique resource provides evidence-based guidance that, combined with modern technologic testing, will grant clinicians the keys to outstanding patient care.
    • Features a reader-friendly outline format, including dozens of "EBM boxes" and accompanying "EBM ruler" illustrations.
    • Contains thorough updates from cover to cover, including revisions to ensure currency with research developments, updated references, numerous new physical findings, and updated EBM boxes with recalculated likelihood ratios.
    • Features a unique, up-to-date, evidence-based calculator online that enables you to easily determine probability using likelihood ratios.
    • Covers the conditions and diseases you’re most likely to encounter, including stance and gait, jaundice, anemia, obesity, Cushing syndrome, mental status examination, blood pressure, diabetic retinopathy, hearing, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, heart murmurs, abdominal pain and tenderness, stroke, and much more
    • Begins each chapter with a list of Key Teaching Points, intended for readers desiring quick summaries and for teachers constructing concise bedside lessons.
  • PART 1 Introduction
    1. What is Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis?

    PART 2 Understanding the Evidence
    2. Diagnostic Accuracy of Physical Findings
    3. Using the Tables in This Book
    4. Using the EBM Calculator (Elsevier ebooks +)
    5. Reliability of Physical Findings

    PART 3 General Appearance of the Patient
    6. Mental Status Examination
    7. Stance and Gait
    8. Jaundice
    9. Cyanosis
    10. Anemia
    11. Hypovolemia
    12. Protein-Energy Malnutrition and Weight Loss
    13. Obesity
    14. Cushing Syndrome

    PART 4 Vital Signs
    15. Pulse Rate and Contour
    16. Abnormalities of Pulse Rhythm
    17. Blood Pressure
    18. Temperature
    19. Respiratory Rate and Abnormal Breathing Patterns
    20. Pulse Oximetry

    PART 5 Head and Neck
    21. The Pupils
    22. Diabetic Retinopathy
    23. The Red Eye
    24. Hearing
    25. Thyroid and Its Disorders
    26. Meninges
    27. Peripheral Lymphadenopathy

    PART 6 The Lungs
    28. Inspection of the Chest
    29. Palpation and Percussion of the Chest
    30. Auscultation of the Lungs
    31. Ancillary Tests

    PART 7 Selected Pulmonary Disorders
    32. Pneumonia
    33. Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
    34. Pulmonary Embolism
    35. Pleural Effusion

    PART 8 The Heart
    36. Inspection of the Neck Veins
    37. Percussion of the Heart
    38. Palpation of the Heart
    39. Auscultation of the Heart: General Principles
    40. The First and Second Heart Sounds
    41. Third and Fourth Heart Sounds
    42. Miscellaneous Heart Sounds
    43. Heart Murmurs: General Principles

    PART 9 Selected Cardiac Disorders
    44. Aortic Stenosis
    45. Aortic Regurgitation
    46. Miscellaneous Heart Murmurs
    47. Disorders of the Pericardium
    48. Congestive Heart Failure
    49. Coronary Artery Disease

    PART 10 Abdomen
    50. Inspection of the Abdomen
    51. Palpation and Percussion of the Abdomen
    52. Abdominal Pain and Tenderness
    53. Auscultation of the Abdomen

    PART 11 Extremities
    54. Peripheral Vascular Disease
    55. Diabetic Foot
    56. Edema and Deep Vein Thrombosis
    57. Examination of the Musculoskeletal System

    PART 12 Neurologic Examination
    58. Visual Field Testing
    59. Nerves of the Eye Muscles (III, IV, and VI): Approach to Diplopia
    60. Miscellaneous Cranial Nerves
    61. Examination of the Motor System: Approach to Weakness
    62. Examination of the Sensory System
    63. Examination of the Reflexes
    64. Disorders of the Nerve Roots, Plexuses, and Peripheral Nerves
    65. Coordination and Cerebellar Testing

    PART 13 Selected Neurologic Disorders
    66. Tremor and Parkinson Disease
    67. Hemorrhagic Versus Ischemic Stroke
    68. Acute Vertigo and Imbalance
    69. Examination of Functional Neurological Disorders

    PART 14 Examination in the Intensive Care Unit
    70. Examination of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Steven McGee, MD, Steven McGee, MD, Professor Emeritus, Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

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