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Second Edition
By
Peter Devitt, MBBS, MS, FRACS, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Juliet Barker, MBBS, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Hematology, University of Minnesota; Physician, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Jon Mitchell, Consultant in Hepatology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
Christian Hamilton-Craig, Fellow in Echo Cardiography, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Description
Clinical Problems provides a comprehensive selection of important medical and surgical scenarios. The reader is taken through 62 case
histories step by step and is asked to interpret a broad range of medical data. Most of the clinical problems are accompanied by illustrations,
which include cardiographs, radiographs, clinical and pathological photographs. In addition to detailed questions and answers, a commentary
is provided that highlights the important issues of each case, as well as a guide to further topics of study.
The aim of any undergraduate
curriculum is to produce graduates who have the knowledge and skills required to enable them to become competent members of the medical
fraternity. Understandably, upon qualification these attributes will be raw and untried, but we expect them to be able to show that
they possess what it is required of doctors in their first few years after graduation. What is 'required' in a clinical situation is
often not obvious to the student and hence the reason for this book.
The book represents a departure from the traditional formula
of systems and diseases, and an exhaustive review of each subject. Rather the authors have selected what they believe to be a number
of important and, for the most part, relatively common medical and surgical scenarios and approached each from the perspective of the
practicing clinician presented with a clinical problem. Whilst the book has been written primarily for undergraduates it describes clinical
problems as they will be managed by recently qualified doctors.
It is not the purpose of this book to challenge or compete with standard
reference material, rather it represents an important adjunct to the learning process of clinical reasoning, rather than provide the
knowledge that must accompany it, although an considerable amount of factual material is to be found within its pages. Problem solving
is a vital component of medical education, and while it can be taught well at the bedside and in small group tutorials, there are few
books that help with this style of learning.
Audience
- Medical students, especially those working on problem-based courses.
- Interns/residents/junior doctors
- Nurse practitioners
Contents
Difficulties with postoperative fluid balance in a 65-year-old man
A middle-aged man with postoperative fever
Postoperative hypotension
Postoperative
confusion
Swelling in the neck in a 58-year-old man
A 26-year-old man with a swelling below the ear
Swelling in the neck
A
young man with acute scrotal pain
A scrotal swelling in a 19-year-old man
A 46-year-old woman with a breast lump
A skin lesion
in a 73-year-old man
A 27-year-old man with burns
Dysphagia in a middle-aged woman
Vomiting and collapse in an elderly woman
A
77-year-old man with vomiting
Weight loss in a middle-aged woman
Abdominal pain in a young woman
A man with acute upper abdominal
pain
A woman with acute upper abdominal pain
A 67-year-old woman with acute lower abdominal pain
A 49-year-old man with abdominal
pain and vomiting
Jaundice in an older woman
A young man with profuse diarrhoea
Rectal bleeding in a 65-year-old woman
A
42-year-old man with haematuria
A 70-year-old man with a painful hip
Acute back pain in a 75-year-old man
A 59-year-old man
with calf pain
Acute leg pain in a 73-year-old woman
A 68-year-old woman with a leg ulcer
A 38-year-old man involved in a car
crash
Lower limb trauma in a young man
A 48-year-old man with chest pain
Severe epigastric pain in a middle-aged man
Breathlessness
in a diabetic woman
Breathlessness in a 37-year-old woman
Collapse in a 63-year-old man
A 62-year-old man with breathlessness
and yellow sputum
Persistent cough in a young woman
Fever, cough and breathlessness in a middle-aged man
Breathlessness and
weight loss in a 58-year-old woman
A 63-year-old woman with breathlessness on exertion
Acute breathlessness in a 21-year-old woman
Haematemesis
in a 40-year-old man
A young woman with jaundice
A 34-year-old man with abdominal discomfort
Postoperative oliguria in an elderly
woman
A 40-year-old man with lethargy and hypertension
A 35-year-old woman with hypertension
Intellectual deterioration in an
elderly woman
A young man with depressed conscious state and seizures
A middle-aged man with sudden visual loss
A young man
in a coma
A 31-year-old woman with vertigo
Headache in a middle-aged woman
Back pain in a 50-year-old woman
A woman with
a lump in the neck
Severe dehydration in a young woman
A 22-year-old woman with palpitations and anxiety
A 21-year-old woman
with fever, lethargy and painful joints
A collapsed, breathless woman
Management of a young man who is HIV positive
Back and
leg pain in a middle-aged man
Acute respiratory failure in a 68-year-old man
A young woman with lower abdominal pain
A young
woman with abnormal vaginal bleeding
Index
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Paperback, 432 pages, publication date: AUG-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07323-6
ISBN-10: 0-443-07323-6
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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