Introduction to clinical examination
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Introduction to clinical examination
Churchill Livingstone, 1989
5th ed
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Rev. ed. of: Introduction to clinical examination / John Macleod, E.B. French, J.F. Munro. 4th ed. 1985
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This updated pocketbook aims to provide the junior medical student with a brief account of the fundamental methods of clinical examination. Guidance is provided about history-taking and attention is directed to the principle systems of disease of the main systems. The basic techniques of physical examination are described and a simple system of case recording is included. Only brief reference is made to the significance of the physical findings and mention of diseases is confined to those which are commonly encountered or illustrate a specific point.
Table of Contents
- The approach to the patient - the history, psychiatric assessment, the physical examination, the sequence of the learning process
- the cardiovascular system
- the respiratory system
- the alimentary and genito-urinary systems
- the nervous system
- the locomotor system
- the intergation and completion of the physical examination - the examination of the hands and upper limbs, head, neck, breasts, trunk and lower limbs, a swelling, the skin, the use of the ophthalmoscope, the methods in practice, case recording.
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