Full Description
Murtagh's Practice Tips is the trusted resource that provides tips for GPs and other medical
practitioners drawn from John Murtagh's extensive experience in practice. It is the essential guide
for tried-and-tested approaches to treatment and improvisation methods, using convenient tools
and readily available equipment to treat patients as effectively as possible. For this eighth edition,
Professor Murtagh is joined by Dr Justin Coleman, who wrote the 'GP Tips' handy hints column in
Medical Observer for 13 years.
Content throughout this new edition has been updated, providing essential information, more than
450 detailed illustrations, and step-by-step instructions on how to deal with conditions encountered
by GPs around the world in everyday practice. New and updated content includes:
• accessible technology tips
• excisions
• the phone as a medical tool
• injections and topical anaesthesia
• cryotherapy
• therapeutic venesection.
Written with the busy practitioner in mind, this latest edition describes techniques using common
terminology to suit practitioners at all levels of experience.
Contents
1 Skin repair and minor plastic surgery
2 Injection techniques
3 Treatment of lumps and bumps
4 Basic practical medical procedures
5 Varicose veins
6 Treatment of ano-rectal problems
7 Foot problems
8 Nail problems
9 Common trauma
10 Removal of foreign bodies
11 Muscoloskeletal medicine
12 Orodental problems
13 Ear, nose and throat
14 The eyes
15 Tips on treating children
16 The skin
17 Emergency procedures
18 Technology and basic equipment
19 Miscellaneous
