Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking: (Professional Guide Series)

Describes the practical skills clinicians must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans. This book aims to document and explain how to: talk with a patient, take the history from the patient, examine a patient, and formulate your findings into differential diagnoses.

Offers an understanding of how to perform a health assessment. This title features head-to-toe presentations that show the steps of a physical examination in a logical sequence. It includes detailed illustrations, summary checklists, and learning resources that ensure that you learn the skills you need to know.

This text looks at cross-sectional CT and MR imaging and highlights the current understanding and concepts in the state-of-the-art imaging of a wide range of diseases. It is divided into 12 sections with multiple choice questions to test the reader, accompanied by expanded answers.

Explores the structure, distribution and function of the 12 cranial nerves where each cranial nerve begins with an animated review of anatomy and physiology then examination and interpretation of abnormal findings. This title contains over 250 images, animations and revision exercises.

A collection of supplemental online teaching/learning materials for faculty and students in health assessment or physical exam courses. This library of more than 4,000 electronic assets provides online resources, which are organized by textbook chapters, and within each chapter is a listing of assets by type.

A guide to clinical examination for medical students. Designed to boost your understanding of clinical techniques in practice, it builds confidence by: demonstrating a system for examining the body; displaying relevant observable and palpable anatomy; and, providing an introduction to basic pathology.

This work is intended to help medical students with their preparations for medical short case examinations, and through this process to enhance the depth and breadth of their knowledge of clinical medicine, as well as their clinical skills.

Presents a guide to the various aspects of patient examination. This text enables you to review the questions you should include as part of your history taking, the examination techniques you should use for different body systems, and the presenting signs of common disorders. It includes colour illustrations and colour coded chapters.

Presents the classic Bates approach to physical examination and history taking in a quick-reference outline format. This book features a full-color design with over 500 drawings, with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities plus interpretations on the right. The bound-in CD-ROM contains a free PDA download.

An illustrated guide to the various aspects of history taking and patient examination. This book features clinical photographs and illustrations that explain the concepts and skills to take a history and perform an examination.