Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics

Theodore X. O'Connell

ISBN 10: 1416054626 / ISBN 13: 9781416054627

Verlag: Elsevier Health Science, Saunders, 2009

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy to use, it provides clear workup plans for the most common pediatric conditions, providing you with quick, focused guidance with the flexibility to adapt to each unique patient. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for each condition. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time!Covers the most commonly encountered pediatric conditions to provide you with a practical and useful manual for daily practice. Reflects how a patient actually presents with an organization by presenting sign, symptom, or lab abnormality. Includes a brief background discussion on each topic, followed by lists of important related materials (such as medications that may contribute to each condition) and laboratory and/or radiographic tests to be ordered. Describes each diagnostic test so you can refresh or familiarize yourself with the purpose of the test. Provides a sound framework for building a workup with algorithms for each topic.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781416054627

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics
• Verlag: Elsevier Health Science, Saunders
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1416054626
• ISBN-13: 9781416054627
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 187B x 187 H x 111 T Millimeter Breite: 187 mm, Höhe: 187 mm, Tiefe: 111 mm
• Gewicht: 337 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Each portable pocket resource and quick refresher in the brand new Instant Workups series helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy-to-use, each title includes the most commonly encountered medical conditions in a specialty. Clear workup plans for each condition are presented, giving you quick and focused guidance. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for all conditions. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time!

• Covers the most commonly encountered pediatric conditions to provide you with a practical and useful manual for daily practice.
• Reflects how a patient actually presents with an organization by presenting sign, symptom, or lab abnormality.
• Includes a brief background discussion on each topic, followed by lists of important related materials (such as medications that may contribute to each condition) and laboratory and/or radiographic tests to be ordered.
• Describes each diagnostic test so you can refresh or familiarize yourself with the purpose of the test.
• Provides a sound framework for building a workup with algorithms for each topic.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Ted O'Connell is a family physician, educator, author, innovator, and speaker. He served as the founding director of Kaiser Permanente’s Napa-Solano family medicine residency program and serves as a clinical professor for UC San Francisco, UC Davis, and Drexel University’s schools of medicine. He also founded Kaiser’s community medicine and global health fellowship. has authored or edited over a dozen textbooks, written numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. Among his most notable are USMLE Step 2 Secrets, USMLE Step 3 Secrets, Crush Step 1, and the Instant Workups series of books. He is the Editor-In-Chief for Elsevier’s Clinical Key Meded education platform.