Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2016: 5 Books in 1 (Ferri's Medical Solutions) - Hardcover

Ferri MD, Fred F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0323280471 ISBN 13: 9780323280471

Publisher: Elsevier, 2015

Synopsis

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2016 is simply the fastest, most effective way to access up-to-date diagnostic and treatment information on more than 700 common medical conditions. The popular "5 books in 1" format provides quick guidance on diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, medical algorithms, laboratory tests, and clinical practice guidelines. Yearly updates by experts in key clinical fields ensure that you’re current with fast-changing medical knowledge, and extra electronic content delivers more than 100 exclusive topics, additional algorithms, and much more.

• An easy-to-use format with cross-references, outlines, bullets, tables, boxes, and algorithms to expedite your search
• More than 200 lab tests help hone your skills in reviewing normal values and interpreting results
• Electronic access to additional algorithms, new images and tables, EBM boxes, patient teaching guides, and extra topics. Links between each section allow you to navigate easily from a selected topic to relevant associated material and back again

• More than 200 new figures and tables and 19 new topics in the Diseases and Disorders section, including diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, traumatic brain injury, toxic megacolon, and primary immunodeficiency disease
• New topics in the Differential Diagnosis section, including eosinophilia, drug-induced neutropenia and methemoglobinemia, and respiratory distress in the newborn, and optimize patient care with 22 new tables and boxes
• 15 new algorithms, including goiter, jaundice, and trauma in pregnancy

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean’s teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians.

Review:

"The subtitle 5 books in 1 refers to the fact that this is a comprehensive and well-organized book on the clinical material, differential diagnosis possibilities, algorithms, laboratory testing, and latest clinical guidelines...This is an incredibly useful addition to a busy clinician's smartphone and to their choice of digital device." -Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences) Doody’s Score: 95 - 4 Stars!

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0323280471
• ISBN 13: 9780323280471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1920