This innovative, easy-to-access, pocket guide of essential assessment and treatment information is the ideal patient-side tool for students and rehabilitation clinicians. It chocked full of critical information that you are unlikely to memorize, but always need close at hand when treating patients.
Practicing physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Grant Cooper, MD, provides a concise step-by-step approach to confidently establishing a working clinical diagnosis and finding appropriate treatment options for the most common musculoskeletal ailments. Organized by body region and written with superb clarity, this guide details the important questions to ask in history taking, the physical examination maneuvers appropriate for each pathology, the possible explanations and additional tests needed to diagnose the condition, and the most up-to-date treatment options available.
This book helps in on-the-spot test selection and interpretation of all common diagnostic tests - including risks and costs. It is useful for pocket, office, or library and includes evidence-based information as well as 350+ tests - clinic to ward, imaging to electrocardiography. It also includes diseases associated with abnormal results. Key references accompany each test. It contains algorithms, nomograms, tables. "A lean, mean reference machine..."
A Pocket Guide lessens the uncertainty involved in caring for patients in a long-term care facility. This practical pocket guide is divided into four sections: Introduction, Common Clinical Conditions, Psychosocial Aspects, and Special Issues in Long-Term Care. The chapters address all the varied components of the LTC system as well as how to take care of the patients and residents living within it. The contributors to this easy-to-read guide are passionate about LTC and many have worked within the American Medical Directors Association to create and disseminate a knowledge base for practitioners.
Building on the success and popularity of previous editions, Pocket Prescriber 2009-10 has been fully updated to incorporate new drugs, to remove drugs no longer on the market and to reflect recent changes in dosages and prescribing practice. It fills a niche by providing the most essential clinical pharmacology information that busy clinicians need at their fingertips - by focusing on the 500 key drugs that are most commonly prescribed, in an A to Z listing, the book avoids overwhelming the reader with information and remains user-friendly.
