Last edition Elsevier With major advances in technology there are thousands of clinical and laboratory tests available, forming a key part of the diagnostic process in the highly complex field of modern medicine. This handbook provides a patient-orientated approach to investigation, with a comprehensive review of specialty-related tests.
Last Edition
ISBN 13:h9780198766537
Imprint:hOxford University Press
Language:hEnglish
Authors:hDrew Provan
Pub Date:h02/2018
Pages:h1008
Illus:hIllustrated
Weight:h540.000 grams
Size:h111 X 183 mm
Product Type:hFlexicover
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- • Written in the Oxford Handbook style, this book features references and up-to-date website links for extra clinical detail.
- • This new edition has been revised to include the most recent developments in investigatory tests, with clear step-by-step instructions and updated illustrations to provide greater clarifying background to the text.
- • Written by an experienced team of active clinicians, this is invaluable for junior doctors as a quick reference, as well as senior medical students preparing for examinations.
- • Investigation of patients with suspected disease has become highly complex, with an ever-expanding plethora of investigative techniques available to clinicians.
- • This handbook details the techniques used in modern clinical medicine, across all the major specialties. Each chapter outlines the range of investigations available, along with preparation of the patient, complications, and interpretation of results.
- • The handbook also includes a symptom-focused approach initially, which helps clinicians determine which system may be involved before, then reviews the specialty-specific sections of the book.
- Drew Provan, Honorary Reader in Autoimmune Haematology, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Dr Provan is currently Honorary Reader in Autoimmune Haematology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He studied molecular genetics at Leicester University before studying medicine. After junior medical posts in the UK, I undertook research at The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 1993-4 on an American Traveling fellowship awarded by the Medical Research Council. As a general haematologist, his main area of interest within the field of haematology is immunohaematology which includes diseases such as autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP), neutropenia and haemolytic anaemia. He has written several medical books including Molecular Haematology (Blackwell Science), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology and Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, and the ABC of Clinical Haematology (BMJ books).
- 1: The Patient
- 1: Drew Provan: Symptoms & signs
- 2: Investigations
- 2: Colin Dayan: Endocrinology & metabolism
- 3: Vanessa Fogo and Drew Provan: Haematology
- 4: Gavin Spickett: Immunology & allergy
- 5: Prof Brian Angus: Infectious & tropical diseases
- 6: Andrew R. Houghton: Cardiology
- 7: Emma Greig: Gastroenterology
- 8: Joanna Brown: Respiratory medicine
- 9: Martyn Bracewell: Neurology
- 10: Charlie Tomson and Sarah McLoskey: Renal medicine
- 11: Alison Jones: Poisoning & overdose
- 12: Suzanne Lane: Rheumatology
- 13: Tanya Chawla: Radiology
- 14: Jim Ballinger and Gopinath Gnanasegaran: Nuclear medicine
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