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POCKET ESSENTIALS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
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Fourth Edition

By
Anne Ballinger, MD, MRCP, Consultant Gastroenterologist and General Physician
Stephen Patchett, MD, FRCPI, Consultant Physician/Gastroenterologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin

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Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. A pocketbook of clinical medicine based on Kumar and Clark's CLINICAL MEDICINE (and cross-referenced to it by page number). In addition to being a portable version of Kumar and Clark, this book offers added extras: e.g. exam questions, practical procedures, dictionary of terms, abbreviations, normal values and emergency boxes. The fourth edition will also be available in a PDA (handheld) version, either for purchase alone (as a CD-ROM; (ISBN 0702028320)) or in a pack along with the book (ISBN 0702028339).

Contents
Abbreviations
Normal values
Medical emergencies
1. Ethics and communication
2. Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
3. Gastroenterology and nutrition
4. Liver, biliary tract and pancreatic disease
5. Diseases of the blood and haematological malignancies
6. Rheumatology
7. Water and electrolytes
8. Renal disease
9. Cardiovascular disease
10. Respiratory disease
11. Intensive care medicine
12. Poisoning, drug and alcohol abuse
13. Endocrinology
14. Diabetes mellitus and other disorders of metabolism
15. The Special Senses
16. Neurology
17. Dermatology
18. Practical procedures
19. Therapeutics
Medicine examination questions
Dictionary of terms
Index

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 1052 pages, publication date: APR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2830-4
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2830-4
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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