Pocketbook of Oral Disease - E-Book
Pocketbook of Oral Disease - E-Book

Author: Crispian Scully

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-09-24

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0702052000

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Prepared by authors of international renown, The Pocketbook of Oral Disease offers a wealth of information in a handy quick-reference format. Containing over 500 tables and illustrations, this useful guide covers the most common and potentially serious oral conditions seen in clinical practice. Emphasising diagnosis and treatment in primary care, many topics are covered in a two-page spread to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiological images demonstrate essential features at a glance whilst complex terms are clarified in a glossary. The Pocketbook of Oral Disease will be ideal for dental students who are about to graduate, general dental practitioners and dental care professionals. - Written by high profile experts in the field - Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information - Includes a wide range of colour clinical photographs, radiological images, and artwork schematics - Contains useful 'pull out' boxes to act as useful aide-memoirs - Algorithms help readers think through the challenge of diagnosis and organise information correctly - Glossary and alphabetically ordered syndromes further allow rapid access to key information

Pocketbook of Oral Disease
Pocketbook of Oral Disease

Author: Crispian Scully

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780702046490

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Offers a wealth of information in a handy quick-reference format. Containing over 500 tables and illustrations, covers the most common and potentially serious oral conditions seen in primary care dentistry. Will be ideal for dental students who are about to graduate, general dental practitioners and dental care professionals. [editor].

Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis E-Book
Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis E-Book

Author: Thomas A Slater

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2021-07-02

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 0702077798

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This handy guide is packed full of information to support medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals in making an accurate diagnosis in relation to different presenting complaints. Now in its fifth edition, the Pocketbook takes the reader through the key steps of narrowing a differential diagnosis, including history, examination and investigation findings. It has been fully updated to cover the full range of common presenting problems facing clinicians today. This book is easy-to-read and logical, making it useful for all clinicians within a variety of settings, from the classroom to emergency department and primary care. - Traffic light system to allow consideration of common before rarer diagnoses - Hazard symbols to highlight diagnoses that may need rapid assessment and management - Summary boxes, with a focus on malignancy red flag symptoms - Updated terminology and investigations - This Fifth Edition covers 125 common presenting problems in both medicine and surgery in a consistent format. - Each topic includes a list of all potential causes of the condition, colour coded to indicate common, occasional or rare causes. Important geographical variations are also highlighted. - Two sections cover the differential diagnosis of biochemical and haematological disorders which provide a ready check when reviewing abnormal results - The text includes a targeted guide to the relevant general and specific follow-up investigations which should be carried out as appropriate. - Each topic ends with a box highlighting important learning points, or indicating symptom and signs suggestive of significant pathology which require urgent action. - A new authorial team have thoroughly revised the contents and ensured the coverage is entirely appropriate for the book's readership.

Churchill's Pocketbook of General Practice E-Book
Churchill's Pocketbook of General Practice E-Book

Author: Simon Cartwright

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-01-20

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0702050733

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A concise, easy-to-refer-to handbook of common conditions seen in general practice and how to treat them. Each condition is discussed in a standard way that will be familiar to most GPs – assessment, including history and examination, and management. Throughout the book there are ‘alert’ boxes (marked with an exclamation point!) as well as helpful hints and ‘useful tips’, set off in boxes. This edition is completely up to date with the very latest information and includes national guidelines on treating major diseases seen in primary care. There are also new Quality and Outcomes Framework features. Short, concise handbook focusing on clinical and practical aspects of disease management Covers all the diseases commonly seen in primary care Omits complexities such as disease aetiology to focus on practical aspects of the GPs' role Chapters are divided into systems of the body for ease of organisation and reference Topics presented as a diagnosis [e.g. epilepsy] or as a symptom [e.g. chest pain] to aid physician guidance Helpful appendices, including drug monitoring, private medical examinations, patient reports, notifiable diseases, management of anaphylaxis, immunisation, growth charts, dermatomes, etc. Incorporates all the latest national guidelines for diseases such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes Quality and Outcomes Framework features New chapter on Men's Health Updated guidelines Quality and Outcomes Framework features

Scully's Handbook of Medical Problems in Dentistry E-Book
Scully's Handbook of Medical Problems in Dentistry E-Book

Author: Crispian Scully

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2016-04-06

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0702070343

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Prepared by an author of international renown, Scully's Handbook of Medical Problems in Dentistry offers a wealth of information in a handy easy-to-carry format. Containing over 250 colour photographs, artworks and tables, many of which have never been published before, this useful guide covers the main conditions seen in clinical practice together with their relevance to oral health care. - Highlights the main points of human diseases and their relevance to oral healthcare in a practical way - Gives particular focus on areas that are of major concern to dentistry and oral healthcare e.g. allergies, bleeding tendencies, endocrine disorders - especially diabetes - gravid patients, hepatitis and other transmissible diseases, and malignant disease - Explains the process of risk assessment, pain and anxiety control, patient access and positioning, treatment modification and drug use - 'Relevance for Dentistry' boxes highlight the most crucial aspects of specific conditions - Contains new national and international guidelines, further reading and up-to-date websites - More than meets the needs of the UK General Dental Council (GDC) document 'Preparing for practice; Dental team learning outcomes for registration'. - Ideal for all dental students, general dental practitioners and hospital-based dentists together with other oral healthcare staff who need to keep up to date with medical knowledge

Churchill's Pocketbook of Diabetes E-Book
Churchill's Pocketbook of Diabetes E-Book

Author: Sujoy Ghosh

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1455742112

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The incidence of diabetes is increasing at epidemic proportions worldwide, presenting a huge challenge to modern medicine. In response, scientific advances in the understanding of diabetes and its complications are being translated into improved clinical practice at ever faster rates. Greater understanding of aetiopathogenesis of the different types of diabetes, the emerging roles of novel pharmacological agents and the importance placed on multidisciplinary team working and multi-risk-factor treatment all contribute to this. Now in a fully revised second edition, this clear, concise guide to modern diabetes and its management will prove invaluable to all health professionals in this field. Suitable for instant reference in the clinic or office. Helps answer the questions which diabetic patients will direct at their carers about their disease, its causes, prognosis and consequences for their lifestyle. Offers practical and accessible advice on all aspects of the condition from presentation and diagnosis to organisation of care. Suitable for diabetic nurses as well as junior doctors. Evidence based boxes give the rationale behind treatment decisions. Colour illustrations of important conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and foot disease. Key points highlighted throughout the book, vital/high risk points emphasized with exclamation mark icon. More information on insulin therapy, dyslipidaemia, macrovascular disease and hypertension. Complete rewrite of oral antidiabetic agents section. Smaller, more pocketable page size.

Pocketbook of Surgery - E-Book
Pocketbook of Surgery - E-Book

Author: Michael S. Delbridge

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0323936415

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This quick reference guide for medical students and junior doctors is essential during surgery rotations.Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery covers the fundamental principles of all the major surgical specialties including aetiology, diagnosis and management, pre-operative and post-operative care. It includes an overview of important considerations such as consent, clinical audit, common operations, and provides a checklist of emergency situations.Fully updated, succinct and clearly structured, this is a must-have book that you will return to time and again. - New chapter on the heart and thoracic great vessels - Updated content on new surgical approaches and minimally invasive surgery - Shock chapter has been updated to reflect the tenth edition of ATLS - Introductory chapter on consent, medicolegal issues, statistics and clinical audit - New colour illustrations throughout - Small, portable format – refer to it during your surgical rounds - Succinct text and clearly structured – easy to navigate for doctors on the go - Covers all the major surgical specialties - Provides an overview of history-taking, relevant physical signs, differential diagnosis, investigations and practical treatment - Outlines common operations such as appendicectomy and thyroidectomy - Checklist of emergency situations for quick reference - Hints and tips throughout

Color Atlas of Oral Diseases
Color Atlas of Oral Diseases

Author: George Laskaris

Publisher: Thieme

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9783137170020

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For the third edition, the text has been thoroughly revised to keep pace with new concepts in oral medicine. The structure of the text has been clarified and made more practically useful, with references to etiology, clinical images, differential diagnosis, laboratory diagnostic tests, and therapy guidelines. Also new in the third edition: four new chapters, and more than 240 new, exquisite illustrations of lesions and pathologic conditions affecting the oral cavity.

Oral Mucositis
Oral Mucositis

Author: Stephen T Sonis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1907673466

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Treatment tolerance is a challenge for most cancer patients, and it is therefore essential that healthcare professionals (HCP) are quick to recognize adverse events and implement management strategies to address them. This pocket book provides an in-depth guide to the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of oral mucositis, a common adverse event of chemotherapy.

Churchill's Pocketbook of Clinical Pharmacy E-Book
Churchill's Pocketbook of Clinical Pharmacy E-Book

Author: Nick D. Barber

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 0702039977

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The eBook version of this title gives you access to the complete book content electronically*. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Pharmacy eBooks. *Please note that this version is the eBook only and does not include the printed textbook. Alternatively, you can buy the Text and Evolve eBooks Package (which gives you the printed book plus the eBook). Please scroll down to our Related Titles section to find this title. A handbook of clinical pharmacy that covers the role of the pharmacist in hospital and community and key areas of practice such as OTC (over-the-counter) prescribing and therapeutic drug level monitoring. The new edition will specifically address, among other things, the changing role of the pharmacist in the community, issues surrounding compliance, and management and communication skills. - This unique pocket-sized clinical reference is easy to use on the go. - Includes content on both hospital and community pharmacy. - How to Use This Book section at the beginning of the book helps readers get the most out of the text by describing all of its assets and their uses. - Expanded and timely information on the changing role of the pharmacist in the community, including their role in initiatives such as smoking cessation, and protocols for emergency hormonal contraception. - Includes more content on compliance such as researching and providing patients with accurate drug information. - Expanded information on communication and management skills emphasize the importance of these skills for both community and hospital pharmacists. - Improved, more user-friendly format features a two-color design to make finding information easier.