Full Description
This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning.
The cases cover a wide range of acute symptoms and conditions encountered in medicine, with clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The level of detail is ideal for exam revision as well as to support junior doctors and other healthcare professionals on the wards.
Now in its fifth edition, this latest Kumar & Clark has been fully updated by new editors who bring a wealth of clinical experience as well as a recent junior doctor perspective to this highly useful book.
More than 200 clinical cases covering various acute symptoms and conditions
Includes the most common MLA conditions
Concise, relevant, and fully updated with evidence-based information and the latest guidelines
Clear advice on immediate and further management, complications, differential diagnoses, history-taking, tips, pitfalls, alerts, investigations, and prioritisation
Key points reinforced through 'Remember', 'Investigations' and 'Information' boxes
High-quality diagrams, tables, and photographs throughout
An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
New sections on palliative care, ophthalmology, and metabolic bone diseases
Expanded dermatology chapter
Fully updated and aligned to latest guidelines
Contents
1 Emergency Medicine and Toxicology
2 Cardiology
3 Respiratory Disorders
4 Gastroenterology
5 Liver and Biliary Tract Disorders
6 Kidney and Urinary Tract Disease
7 Neurologia
8 Psychiatry
9 Rheumatology and Bone Disease
10 Endocrinology and Diabetes
11 Haematology and Oncology
12 Dermatology
13 Infectious Diseases
14 Sexually Transmitted Infections
15 Care of the Elderly and Palliative Care
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