The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine is the perfect companion to your time on clinical placements, providing an easy-to-read, highly visual guide to help develop your clinical decision making skills, and transfer your knowledge into practice. Packed full of useful tips, key boxes, exercises and summaries that are designed to help you apply the knowledge gained in clinical practice.
Divided into the common clinical placements that you would find yourself in: Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Neurology, Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology, each chapter covers the diagnosis of common clinical conditions, as well as decision-making in their investigation and management.
Written for medical students in their clinical years, as well as new doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine provides students with an accessible resource for honing their clinical reasoning skills.
Take the stress out of clinical decision making with The Hands-on Guide!
By:
Mujammil Irfan
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 277mm,
Width: 216mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.021kg
ISBN: 9781119244035
ISBN 10: 111924403X
Series: Hands-on Guides
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 February 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword, ix Preface, xi Acknowledgements, xiii Reviewers, xv Abbreviations, xvii Normal Reference Ranges, xix Icons Explained, xxi About the Companion Website, xxiii 1 Introduction: The Skeleton Laid Bare, 1 Part I Respiratory Medicine, 11 2 History Taking: A Breath of Fresh Air, 13 3 Clinical Examination: The Rustle of Leaves, 20 4 Interpretation of Chest Radiographs: The Light Through the Tunnel, 22 5 Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases and Pleural Fluid Results: Needling it Out, 26 6 Chronic Cough, 30 7 Acute Breathlessness, 37 8 Acute Chest Pain, 45 9 Acute Haemoptysis, 50 Part II Cardiovascular Medicine, 55 10 History Taking: The Three Pillow Dilemma, 57 11 Clinical Examination: The Orchestra of Sounds, 62 12 Interpretation of Chest Radiographs: Let There Be Light, 67 13 Interpretation of Electrocardiograms: The Rhythm of Life, 70 14 Palpitations, 75 15 Worsening Breathlessness, 80 16 Vague Systemic Symptoms, 85 17 Acute Chest Pain, 89 18 Blurring the Margins, 94 Part III Nephrology, 99 19 History Taking: Blood in the Urine, 101 20 Clinical Examination: Why Is the Kidney Failing?, 107 21 Renal Investigations: The Case of the Frothy Urine, 110 22 Hypertension, 115 23 Haematuria, 120 24 Oedema, 124 25 Non‐Specific Symptoms, 128 Part IV Endocrinology, 133 26 History Taking: Why Am I Losing Weight Doctor?, 135 27 Clinical Examination: Looking at the Person as a Whole, 137 28 Investigations: Seeing the Wood for the Trees, 143 29 Weight Gain, 147 30 Palpitations, 151 31 Weight Loss, 155 32 Thirsty and Confused, 159 Part V Neurology, 163 33 History Taking: What a Headache, 165 34 Clinical Examination: Walking Straight, 169 35 Investigations: The Light Bulb, 178 36 Headache, 185 37 Diplopia, 190 38 Leg Weakness, 195 39 Unilateral Weakness, 201 Part VI Geriatric Medicine, 205 40 History Taking: The Haze of Confusion, 207 41 Clinical Examination: Why Do I Keep Falling?, 212 42 Urinary Continence, 215 43 Falls, 220 44 Acute Confusion, 225 45 Dementia, 231 Part VII Gastroenterology, 237 46 History Taking: Where is the Pain?, 239 47 Clinical Examination: I Have Turned Yellow Doctor!, 246 48 Investigations: Journey to the Centre of the Abdomen and Beyond, 250 49 Weight Loss and Diarrhoea, 257 50 Jaundice, 262 51 Haematemesis and Melaena, 266 52 Abdominal Pain, 271 Part VIII Rheumatology, 277 53 History Taking: My Joints Hurt, 279 54 Clinical Examination: A Hot Swollen Joint, 282 55 Investigations: A Glimpse into the Creaky Bones, 286 56 Muscle Aches, 291 57 Joint Pain, 296 58 Back Pain, 301 59 Multi‐System Disease, 305 Part IX Common Clinical Conditions, 311 60 Common Clinical Conditions, 313 61 Respiratory Block, 314 62 Cardiology, 318 63 Nephrology, 323 64 Neurology, 326 65 Gastroenterology, 330 66 Geriatric Medicine, 333 67 Endocrinology, 335 68 Rheumatology, 337 Index, 338
Mujammil Irfan MBBS, MRCP(UK), MSc Medical Education, SCE Respiratory Medicine, is a Consultant Respiratory Physician in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reviews for The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine is a great book aimed at medical students. It uses ideas such as concept maps, activities, and cases to take learners through the diagnostic process in an explicit way. This approach is likely to be more useful than a 'traditional' textbook when it comes to thinking through real patients' problems. The book covers the internal medicine curriculum, and there is also an accompanying website. It's well laid out and easy to read. It's designed to be an internal medicine textbook written through a clinical reasoning lens - and the result is a practical book that makes learning more likely to happen. I'd recommend it to medical students, junior doctors, advanced clinical practitioners, and others who need to get to grips with the basics of medicine but in a thoroughly practical and applicable way. - Dr Nicola Cooper, Consultant Physician, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Nottingham, UK and co-editor of the ABC of Clinical Reasoning. The book is written in an informal, conversational style with a friendly and coaching feel ... the questions are thought provoking, with a patient at the centre. The prompts in the text serve as a useful guide to develop skills in clinical reasoning. - British Journal of General Practice, July 2020
