The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment

Editor/Author Schroeder, Knut
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $79.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $119.93
ISBN: 978-1-11-910634-0
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This book teaches the reader how to gather clinical information effectively, accurately and safely even when time is at a premium.

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Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface to 1st edition
  • Preface to 2nd edition
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Selected useful resources
  • The focused consultation
  • Focused clinical assessment
  • Useful consultation tools
  • Red flags in general practice
  • Undifferentiated and miscellaneous presentations
  • Suspected cancer
  • Weight loss
  • Tiredness
  • Dizziness
  • Chronic pain
  • Sudden collapse and syncope
  • Frequent attenders
  • Medication review and polypharmacy
  • Medically unexplained symptoms
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability and ‘stress’
  • Domestic violence
  • Homelessness
  • Paediatrics and adolescent health
  • The sick and/or feverish child
  • Suspected meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia
  • Neonatal jaundice
  • Faltering growth
  • Headache and migraine in children
  • Head injury in children
  • Suspected cancer in children and adolescents
  • Abdominal pain in children
  • Hearing loss in children
  • Childhood cough
  • Childhood wheeze
  • Constipation in children
  • Childhood obesity
  • Suspected child abuse and neglect
  • Nocturnal enuresis
  • Knee problems in children
  • Hip problems in children
  • Adolescent health problems
  • Self-harm in teenagers
  • Eating disorders
  • Autism-spectrum disorder
  • Cardiovascular
  • Chest pain
  • Palpitations
  • Cardiovascular risk assessment
  • Hypertension
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Heart failure
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Respiratory
  • Shortness of breath
  • Haemoptysis
  • Suspected lung cancer
  • Asthma
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Suspected pneumonia
  • Pleural effusion
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Endocrine and metabolic
  • Diabetes review
  • Obesity
  • Hirsutism in women
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hyponatraemia
  • Hypernatraemia
  • Hypokalaemia
  • Hyperkalaemia
  • Hypocalcaemia
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Dysphagia
  • Dyspepsia and reflux
  • Upper gastrointestinal bleeding and melaena
  • Abdominal pain
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhoea
  • Rectal bleeding and suspected bowel cancer
  • Abnormal liver function tests
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Coeliac disease
  • Infectious diseases
  • Fever of unknown origin
  • Fever and illness in the returning traveller
  • HIV infection and AIDS
  • Tuberculosis
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Haematology
  • Iron-deficiency anaemia
  • Macrocytic anaemia (B12 and folate deficiency)
  • Bleeding disorders
  • Myeloma
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Soft-tissue injury
  • Acute hot and swollen joint
  • Chronic musculoskeletal pain
  • Polyarthralgia
  • Neck pain
  • Back pain
  • Shoulder and arm problems
  • Elbow problems
  • Hand problems
  • Hip pain
  • Groin problems
  • Leg pain and/or swelling
  • Knee pain
  • Foot and ankle problems
  • Gout
  • Osteoporosis
  • Neurology
  • Headache
  • Transient ischaemic attack and stroke
  • Head injury in adults
  • Suspected or confirmed brain tumour
  • Tremor
  • Motor neurone disease
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Gynaecology
  • Combined oral contraception
  • Menorrhagia
  • Amenorrhoea
  • Breast lumps
  • Loss of libido
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Suspected ovarian cancer
  • Obstetrics
  • Routine antenatal care
  • Bleeding in early pregnancy
  • Abdominal pain in pregnancy
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Urology and renal medicine
  • Suspected urinary tract infection in women
  • Lower urinary tract symptoms in men
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Urethral discharge in men
  • Scrotal and testicular problems
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Renal or ureteric colic (kidney stones)
  • Haematuria
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Mental health
  • Depression
  • Self-harm and harm to others
  • Anxiety, phobias and panic disorder
  • Alcohol screening
  • Alcohol dependence
  • Illicit drug misuse
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Mania
  • Schizophrenia
  • Skin
  • Moles and malignant melanoma
  • Pressure ulcers
  • Ophthalmology
  • Eye injuries
  • The acute red eye
  • Gradual painless visual disturbance
  • Sudden painless visual disturbance
  • Eye problems in older people
  • Ear, nose and throat
  • Neck swelling
  • Sore throat
  • Ear pain
  • Hearing loss in adults
  • Tinnitus
  • Sinusitis and facial pain
  • Problems in older people
  • General health assessment in older people
  • Cognitive problems and dementia
  • Falls in older people
  • Delirium and acute confusional state
  • Depression in older people
  • Palliative and end-of-life care
  • Parkinson's disease