Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints: with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

Symons, who brings a strong background in education as Vice Chair of Medical Student Education at SUNY Buffalo. Andrew B. Determine which imaging modalities and laboratory tests offer the greatest efficiencies and accuracy for a given set of symptoms. Robert H. Be prepared to make a fast and efficient diagnosis with this valuable resource.

Differential diagnosis of Common Complaints, 6th Edition, by Drs. Seller and Andrew B. Search the entire text online and find links to self-assessment questions, case studies, and relevant content from other Student Consult titles at www. Studentconsult. Com. Effectively diagnose your patients using an increased focus on evidence-based decision making, thoroughly updated material, and the latest results from clinical and diagnostic studies.

Symons, helps you quickly and efficiently diagnose the 36 most common symptoms reported by patients. Organized alphabetically by presenting symptom, each chapter mirrors the problem-solving process most physicians use to make a diagnosis. Get a fresh perspective from new co-author, Dr. Recognize skin problems more easily with full-color images in the dermatology chapter.

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Pediatric Physical Examination: An Illustrated Handbook

More than 300 photos and line drawings facilitate learning and familiarize you with common assessment findings. Information gathering tables highlight questions and data needed from the patient/guardian, with questions conveniently separated by age group, to help you take an accurate history. Charting examples show you how to record physical examination findings in the health record and acquaint you with documentation language and format.

Pediatric pearls highlight effective physical examination findings and techniques gleaned from actual practice. Coverage of assessment of the preterm infant equips you with practical tools for assessing this unique pediatric population. Full-color format facilitates readability and learning. An easy-access two-column format provides quick access to concise information.

Spiral binding lets you lay the book flat or fold it back for easy visualization and quick reference in the clinical setting. New! expanded coverage of growth and development screening and surveillance reviews the methods and tools used for screening children for developmental delays and emotional and behavioral problems ― one of the most challenging aspects of well-child care.

New! expanded coverage of history-taking and charting, and adolescent assessment, dermatologic assessment of more darkly pigmented skin, provides valuable, with special emphasis on electronic charting, need-to-know information. New! expanded coverage of pediatric mental health assessment, including depression and anxiety, better equips you to assess for the 70% of adolescent mental health disorders that are thought to be unrecognized and untreated.

New! family, cultural, and racial considerations sections address the increasingly important areas of family and cultural assessment to prepare you for differences to anticipate when assessing children of different cultural or racial groups.


Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

This highly regarded text includes fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline the correct performance of the physical examination and an easy-to-follow two-column format featuring examination techniques on the left and abnormalities clearly indicated in red with differential diagnoses on the right.

Perform an accurate, efficient, and effective physical examination with confidence. Bates’ guide to physical examination and history taking provides authoritative, applying clinical reasoning, step-by-step guidance on performing the patient interview and physical examination, shared decision-making, and other core assessment skills—all based on a firm understanding of clinical evidence.

Bates’ guide to physical examination and History Taking is the #1 choice for complete, authoritative guidance on mastering every aspect of the all-important physical examination. Clinical pearls, printed in blue, highlight key points throughout the text. Text boxes help readers quickly find important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques.

Many new and updated photographs and illustrations support the text, and figures are now numbered for easy identification and reference. Don’t miss these additional resources also available for purchase:bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Eighth EditionThe Pocket Guide is an abbreviated version of the Bates’ twelfth edition textbook, designed for portability and convenience at the bedside.

Bates’ visual Guide to Physical Examination www. Batesvisualguide.


Pediatric Primary Care

This sixth edition also features a wealth of new content and updates ― such as a new chapter on pediatric pharmacology, a refocused chapter on practice management, full-color design and illustrations, new QSEN integration, updated coverage of the impact of the Affordable Care Act, and more ― to keep readers up to date on the latest issues affecting practice today.

Comprehensive content provides a complete foundation in the primary care of children from the unique perspective of the Nurse Practitioner and covers the full spectrum of health conditions seen in the primary care of children, emphasizing both prevention and management. In-depth guidance on assessing and managing pediatric health problems covers patients from infancy through adolescence.

Four-part organization includes 1 an introductory unit on the foundations of global pediatric health, child and family health assessment, and cultural perspectives for pediatric primary care; 2 a unit on managing child development; 3 a unit on health promotion and management; and 4 a unit on disease management.

Content devoted to issues of daily living covers issues that are a part of every child's growth ― such as nutrition and toilet training ― that could lead to health problems unless appropriate education and guidance are given. Algorithms are used throughout the book to provide a concise overview of the evaluation and management of common disorders.

Resources for providers and families are also included throughout the text for further information. Expert editor team well is well-versed in the scope of practice and knowledge base of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners PNPs and Family Nurse Practitioners FNPs. New! updated content throughout reflects the latest developments in our understanding of disease processes, disease management in children, and current trends in pediatric healthcare.




Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice

New chapters cover topics including transitional care, LGBTQ patient care, bullous pemphigoid, risk management, pulmonary embolism, and dysphagia. New! an emphasis on clinical reasoning helps you develop skills in diagnosis and treatment, with coverage moving away from pathophysiology and toward diagnostic reasoning and disease management ― including pharmacologic management.

New focus on interdisciplinary care underscores the importance of interprofessional education and practice, and includes Interdisciplinary Management features. Updated chapters reflect the latest literature and evidence-based treatment guidelines, pharmacogenetics/genomics, quality metrics, value-based purchasing, including new content on the Affordable Care Act as well as new coverage of patient satisfaction metrics, and teen pregnancy and abnormal pregnancy.

New quick-reference features make it easier to locate important information, through colorful section tabs, bulleted summaries, additional algorithms, an Index to Standardized Treatment Guidelines, a more logical table of contents, and a Reference to Common Laboratory Values. Prepare for success in today's fast-paced, collaborative healthcare environment! Offering expert perspectives from a variety of primary care and nurse practitioners, treat, 5th Edition helps you diagnose, Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice, and manage hundreds of adult disorders.

This edition includes six new chapters, a fresh new design, the latest evidence-based guidelines, and a new emphasis on clinical reasoning. Combining academic and clinical expertise, an author team led by Terry Mahan Buttaro shows NPs how to provide effective, truly interdisciplinary health care. Unique! a collaborative perspective promotes seamless continuity of care, physicians, PAs, with chapters written by NPs, and other primary care providers.




Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 19/E Vol.1 & Vol.2

Increased number of the popular harrison’s clinical algorithms; clinically relevant radiographic examples spanning hundreds of diseases; clinical-pathological images in full color; crystal clear, hundreds of state-of-the-art radiographs, and moreSupporting the renowned coverage are supplemental resources that reflect and assist modern medical practice: more than 1, from plain film to 3D CT to PET Scans; beautiful illustrations that bring applied anatomy and processes to life; the renowned Harrison’s patient-care algorithms, cardiovascular findings, 000 full-color photographs to aid visual recognition skills, essential summary tables, full color drawings and illustrations and helpful tables and summary lists that make clinical application of the content faster than everAccess to outstanding multi-media resources including practical videos demonstrating essential bedside procedures, physical examination techniques, endoscopic findings, and practical demonstrative videos.

Women, surgical patients, end of life. Capturing the countless advances and developments across the full span of medicine, the new 19th edition of Harrison’s provides a complete update of essential content related to disease pathogenesis, evidence-based practice guidelines, current diagnostic methods and imaging approaches, clinical trials, and established and newly approved treatment methods.

Here are just a few of the outstanding features of the new nineteenth edition: presented in two volumes: volume 1 is devoted to foundational principles, hiv and aids, cardinal manifestations of disease and approach to differential diagnosis; Volume 2 covers disease pathogenesis and treatmentNEW chapters on important topics such as Men’s Health, and many moreCritical updates in management and therapeutics in Hepatitis, Coronary Artery Disease, The Impact of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Ebola Virus Disease, Lipoprotein Disorders, Diabetes, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, Hypertension, Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease, Fatigue, and more.

Numerous tables, graphs, and figures add further clarity to the text. The landmark guide to internal medicine―updated and streamlined for today’s students and cliniciansA Doody's Core Title for 2017!All eChapters in the Nineteenth Edition are accessible online as well as on the DVD packaged within the print volumes,  so you have the flexibility of using the method of access most convenient to you.




Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Bright futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, health systems, communities, clinical practices, and policymakers. American Academy of Pediatrics. Bright futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home. Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.

Includes three new health promotion themes: -promoting lifelong health for families and communities -promoting health for children and youth with special health care needs -promoting the healthy and safe use of social media·includes new screen time recommendations·provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health -Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes! ·Disease detection ·Disease prevention ·Health promotion ·Anticipatory guidance What is Bright Futures? ·A set of theory-based, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, and drug use that may affect a child’s and family’s health -Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions·Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice: -Maternal depression screening, Fluoride varnish, evidence-driven, violence, Safe sleep, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, Dyslipidemia blood screening·Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings With Bright Futures, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions.

The bright futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children. This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits—from Newborn through 21 Years.

What’s in the bright futures guidelines, fourth edition?twelve health promotion themes addressing · lifelong health for families and communities  new · family support · health for children and youth with special health care needs  new · healthy development · mental health · healthy weight · healthy nutrition · physical activity · oral health · healthy adolescent development · healthy and safe use of social media  NEW · safety and injury prevention  31 age-based health supervision visits—Newborn to 21 Years All the information and guidance that’s needed to give children optimal health outcomes -Context -Health Supervision -History -Surveillance of Development -Review of Systems -Observation of Parent-Child Interaction -Physical Examination -Medical Screening -Immunizations -Anticipatory Guidance  What’s NEW in the 4th Edition?·Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.

Who can use bright futures? ·child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care ·Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits ·Public Health Professionals ·Policymakers ·Pediatric Educators ·MD Residents   Mcgraw-hill Professional Publishing.


Procedures for the Primary Care Provider

American Academy of Pediatrics. Equipment photos have been replaced to show newer equipment, and selected photos have been replaced with higher-quality images. Mcgraw-hill Professional Publishing. New! brand new full-color, enhanced design, featuring procedure illustrations that fall within the boxed procedure steps, saves space and enhances learning.

Confidently perform the most common office procedures with Procedures for the Primary Care Provider, 3rd Edition. Detailed illustrations nearly 400 drawings and photographs clearly demonstrate the steps of each procedure. Step-by-step numbered guidelines for each procedure allow for quick reference. Convenient spiral binding lets you practice each procedure while keeping the book open for reference without contaminating your hands.

New! coverage of infection precautions, particularly in illustrations, stresses the importance and procedures of infection precaution. New! new illustrations are rendered in full color to improve your learning. This third edition features nine new procedures, new illustrations, a more user-friendly full-color design, and much more.

Need-to-know coverage of the most common office procedures performed by NPs, PAs, and other primary care providers makes this book an excellent guide for clinicians who may not perform these procedures regularly. Consistent procedure format includes a brief description of the procedure, a list of equipment needed, indications and contraindications, a review of relevant anatomy and physiology, treatment alternatives, assessment, patient preparation, precautions, and a step-by-step illustrated procedure.

This practical, spiral-bound reference provides step-by-step illustrated guidelines for basic and advanced office procedures commonly performed by Nurse Practitioners and Physician’s Assistants.


Pediatric Primary Care: Practice Guidelines for Nurses

Case studies and discussion questions are available in the instructor resource package. This user-friendly, comprehensive text guides students through situations they will encounter with pediatric patients. The third edition contains updated practice guidelines in existing chapters, spina bifida, as well as a new chapter of common genetic disorders such as orofacial clefts, Turner Syndrome and Down Syndrome to name a few.

. New to the third edition:•chapter content updated by experts•New chapter on common genetic disorders•Case studies for common illnesses•Discussion questions in each chapter Mcgraw-hill Professional Publishing. American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric primary care: practice guidelines for Nurses, Third Edition is an advanced practice primary care text for nursing students to use in their clinical course.

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Seidel's Guide to Physical Examination Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination

American Academy of Pediatrics. With a strong patient-centered approach to care and an author team comprised of nurses and physicians, 8th Edition, and a wide variety of other health-care programs, Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination, medical, addresses teaching and learning health assessment in nursing, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Mosby. Risk factor boxes provide opportunities for patient teaching or genetic testing for a variety of conditions. Differential diagnosis content offers you an understanding of how disease presentations vary and specific information for how to make diagnoses from similar abnormal findings. Abnormal findings tables equip you with a quick, illustrated reference that allows for comparisons of various abnormalities along with key symptoms and underlying pathophysiology.

Sample documentation boxes clarify appropriate professional language for the process of recording patient assessment data. New! advance practice Skills highlighted throughout text makes identification and reference easier for students. New! updated content throughout provides you with cutting-edge research and a strong evidence-based approach to care.

New! vital signs and pain assessment Chapter groups important, foundational tasks together for easy reference in one location. New! improve readability ensures content remains clear, straightforward, and easy to understand. New! updated illustrations and photographs enhances visual appeal and clarifies anatomic concepts and exam techniques.




Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

This highly regarded pocket guide also covers special stages in the life cycle—infancy through adolescence, pregnancy, and aging. American Academy of Pediatrics. Mcgraw-hill Professional Publishing. Access physical assessment techniques in a flash—anytime, anywhere!This concise and trusted reference provides authoritative guidance on how to perform the patient interview, physical examination, and other core assessments as well as how to apply clinical reasoning and use shared decision-making in a quick-reference format—all based on a firm understanding of clinical evidence.

Bates’ pocket guide to physical examination and history taking includes illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline the correct performance of the physical examination in an easy-to-follow two-column format featuring examination techniques on the left and abnormalities clearly indicated in red with differential diagnoses on the right.

. New to the eighth edition:Text boxes help readers quickly find important summaries of clinical conditions and other relevant information. Many new and updated photographs and illustrations support the text, and figures are now numbered for easy identification and reference. Rewritten chapter on evaluating clinical evidence clarifies key concepts to ensure student understanding.

Revised and expanded chapter on the skin, hair, and nails includes new dermatology photographs and provides the framework for assessing common lesions and abnormalities. Updated behavior and mental status chapter now references DSM-5. Significantly revised information on obesity and nutrition counseling; cardiovascular risk factor screening and new clinical guidelines; new screening guidelines for breast cancer, colon cancer, Papanicolau smears, and stroke risk factors; current information on STIs; new geriatric assessment tools; and much more provide essential clinical updates.