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Elsevier
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Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 26th Edition
by Michael Glynn, MA, MD, FRCP, FHEA, William M. Drake, DM FRCP and Salim Cheeroth, MPhil, FRCP
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443380976
Copyright:
2028
Page Count:
532
Imprint:
Elsevier
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Trusted by generations of students and doctors at all levels of training and practice, Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice, 26th Edition, provides an outstanding source of learning and reference. First published by Sir Robert Hutchison 130 years ago, this award-winning medical text maintains its reputation as the go-to guide to learn the core clinical skills needed for everyday practice.
Fully updated throughout, this revised edition covers basic principles, different patient groups, and all body systems. Each chapter includes relevant clinical methods and offers guidance for appropriate investigations. New methods and investigations are incorporated into established patterns of clinical practice to offer a fully integrated approach.
Fully updated throughout, this revised edition covers basic principles, different patient groups, and all body systems. Each chapter includes relevant clinical methods and offers guidance for appropriate investigations. New methods and investigations are incorporated into established patterns of clinical practice to offer a fully integrated approach.
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- Provides essential guidance on taking a full history, examining a patient, and interpreting the findings, as well as the art of understanding, contextualising, communicating, and explaining—all with particular emphasis placed on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship
- Offers a full, up-to-date account of the role of modern investigative techniques and determining the appropriate choice of investigations in diagnosis and management
- Fully updated throughout—including major revisions to the chapters on ethical considerations, older people, and patients presenting as emergencies—reflecting the latest guidelines and contemporary clinical practice
- Contains a new, dedicated chapter on imaging that incorporates current imaging modalities and reflects the importance of imaging to modern medicine and diagnosis.
- Content is organised by both body system and clinical problem, to aid efficient navigation
- Covers all the main body systems, including the core areas of respiratory, cardiological, gastrointestinal, neurological, and locomotor systems
- Written by experts in their field and reviewed by an International Advisory Board; content is relevant to a wide international readership, including the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East, and Africa
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1. General patient assessment
2. General principles of history-taking
3. General patient examination and differential diagnosis
4. The next steps: differential diagnosis and initial management
5. Ethical considerations Assessment in particular groups
6. Women
7. Children and adolescents
8. Older people
9. Psychiatric assessment
10. Patients presenting as emergencies
11. Patients with a fever
12. Patients in pain Basic systems
13. Respiratory system
14. Cardiovascular system
15. Gastrointestinal system
16. Locomotor system
17. Nervous system
18. Urogenital system
19. Endocrine and metabolic disorders
20. Skin, nails and hair
21. Eyes
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