Introduction to Clinical Examination
5th Edition
Published in October 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-443-04078-8 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
b&w diagrams & sketches, 59 line drawings, table, further reading list, index
Dimensions
Height: 9 mm
Width: 186 mm
Weight
146 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-04078-8 (9780443040788)
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Michael J. Ford | J.F. Munro
Introduction to Clinical Examination
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08/1993
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Content
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.