Pocket Guide to Clinical Examination

Pocket Guide to Clinical Examination is a handy, well illustrated guide to all aspects of patient examination. Carry this practical text with you so you can 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. The new third edition includes colour illustrations and colour coded chapters to help you get to the information you need with minimum delay. More sample Questions to Ask boxes have been included, as well as helpful advice on what to do in Emergency situations.

• Signs and symptoms sections describe the most important diseases associated with each body system.
  
• Boxes highlight important information on a range of issues―the elderly, emergency situations, "Questions to Ask".
  
• Color photographs and diagrams illustrate examination techniques and clinical manifestations.
  
• "Questions to Ask" boxes and advice on what to do in an emergency make important information easy to find.

More Questions to Ask Icon boxes

More Emergency Icon boxes

More on psychiatric examination

Color coded chapters with color used to differentiate between Icon boxes

Color photos

Owen Epstein, MBBCh, FRCP, Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, London; G. David Perkin, BA, MB, FRCP, Consultant Neurologist Charing Cross Hospital, London Charing Cross and Hillingdon Hospital, London, UK; and John Cookson, MD, FRCP, Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester Consultant Physician and Clinical Tutor, Department of Respirator Medicine