Full Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Family Medicine**
For nearly 30 years Ferri's Clinical Advisor has provided immediate answers on the myriad medical diseases and disorders you're likely to encounter in a unique, easy-to-use format. A bestselling title year after year, this popular "5 books in 1" reference delivers vast amounts of information in a user-friendly manner. It is updated annually to provide current and clinically relevant answers on over 1,000 common medical conditions across sections focusing on diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, clinical algorithms, laboratory tests, and clinical practice guidelines?all carefully reviewed by experts in key clinical fields. Extensive algorithms, along with hundreds of high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and tables, ensure that you stay current with today's medical practice.
Contains significant updates on diagnosis, treatment, and management, reflecting the latest approaches in clinical practice
Features 28 all-new topics including protein-losing enteropathy, fistula-in-ano, neck abscess, chronic meningitis, pregnancy-associated sleep disorders, chronic pelvic pain in women, adult-onset autoinflammatory disease, bone metastases, periprosthetic joint infection, liver metastasis, chronic and recurrent pneumonias, sudden cardiac death, firearm injury, and abnormal uterine bleeding in adolescents, among others
Includes useful appendices covering palliative care, preoperative evaluation, nutrition, poison management, commonly used herbal products in integrated medicine, and much more
Offers online access to newly revised and updated Patient Teaching Guides in both English and Spanish
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
SECTION I Diseases and Disorders
SECTION II Differential Diagnosis
SECTION III Clinical Algorithms
SECTION IV Laboratory Tests and Interpretation of Results
SECTION V Clinical Practice Guidelines
APPENDIX I Complementary and Alternative Medicine Terms (available online)
APPENDIX II Nutrition (available online)
APPENDIX III Acute Poisoning (available online)
APPENDIX IV Impairment and Disability Issues (available online)
APPENDIX V Protection of Travelers (available online)
APPENDIX VI Care of the Transgender Patient (available online)
APPENDIX VII Patient Teachings Guides (available online)
APPENDIX VIII Palliative Care (available online)
APPENDIX IX Preoperative Evaluation (available online)
