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THE 10-MINUTE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT
Clinical assessment is at the heart of medicine. Health professionals working in busy clinical settings, such as general practitioners, nurse practitioners and hospital doctors on-call, often have to assess patients under considerable time constraints. This book teaches the reader how to gather clinical information effectively, accurately and safely even when time is at a premium. Using a focused and evidence-based approach, it provides step-by-step assessment strategies for common and important clinical scenarios, particularly those that require ‘lateral’and holistic thinking, such as falls in the elderly, weight loss, ‘tired all the time’and assessment of diabetic or homeless people.

This second edition of The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment is fully updated in line with the latest guidelines and includes brand new general chapters on focused clinical assessment, red flags, and useful consultation tools. It covers a wide range of common and important topics, including cardiovascular, respiratory, haematology, musculoskeletal, neurology, mental health, gynaecology, obstetrics, urology, ophthalmology and ear, nose and throat. This new edition also includes sectionson undifferentiated and miscellaneous presentations, on paediatrics and adolescent health; and on problems in older people. Each of the individual disease sections is uniformly structured to provide rapid reference, including:

Key features of the history, including questions relevant to patientsand important for making a diagnosis
Common patient ideas, concerns and expectations
The ‘value’ of present or absent symptoms for diagnosis and prognosis
What should be examined, and why
A summary of ‘red flags’ – issues that must be assessed
Important differential diagnoses and their clinical features
Useful tips, tricks and hints for effective patient assessment
Written by an experienced medical educator and practicing GP, in consultation with a multidisciplinary team of medical students, GPs, PG trainees, hospital doctors and nurses, this title specifically covers the clinical skills assessment (CSA) part of the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) examination.

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Сategories: Education
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 801 pages
Table of Contents
The focused consultation, 1
Focused clinical assessment, 3
Useful consultation tools, 8
Red flags in general practice, 12
Undifferentiated and miscellaneous presentations, 15
Suspected cancer, 17
Weight loss, 24
Tiredness, 29
Dizziness, 35
Chronic pain, 41
Sudden collapse and syncope, 45
Frequent attenders, 50
Medication review and polypharmacy, 54
Medically unexplained symptoms, 58
Insomnia, 63
Irritability and ‘stress’, 67
Domestic violence, 71
Homelessness, 75
Paediatrics and adolescent health, 81
The sick and/or feverish child, 83
Suspected meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, 90
Neonatal jaundice, 95
Faltering growth, 99
Headache and migraine in children, 104
Head injury in children, 108
Suspected cancer in children and adolescents, 113
Abdominal pain in children, 118
Hearing loss in children, 124
Childhood cough, 128
Childhood wheeze, 133
Constipation in children, 138
Childhood obesity, 142
Suspected child abuse and neglect, 148
Nocturnal enuresis, 153
Knee problems in children, 158
Hip problems in children, 163
Adolescent health problems, 167
Self-harm in teenagers, 171
Eating disorders, 175
Autism-spectrum disorder, 180
Cardiovascular, 183
Chest pain, 185
Palpitations, 191
Cardiovascular risk assessment, 195
Hypertension, 200
Atrial fibrillation, 205
Heart failure, 209
Peripheral vascular disease, 215
Respiratory, 221
Shortness of breath, 223
Haemoptysis, 228
Suspected lung cancer, 233
Asthma, 237
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 242
Suspected pneumonia, 248
Pleural effusion, 252
Pulmonary embolism, 256
Endocrine and metabolic, 261
Diabetes review, 263
Obesity, 268
Hirsutism in women, 273
Hypothyroidism, 277
Hyperthyroidism, 281
Hyponatraemia, 285
Hypernatraemia, 289
Hypokalaemia, 292
Hyperkalaemia, 296
Hypocalcaemia, 299
Hypercalcaemia, 302
Gastrointestinal, 307
Nausea and vomiting, 309
Dysphagia, 313
Dyspepsia and reflux, 317
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding and melaena, 321
Abdominal pain, 326…
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About the Authors
Knut Schroeder MD, MSc, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP, MRCP, PhD
General Practitioner, Bristol, UK; and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Knut Schroeder holds a Certificate in Medical Education and developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses on clinical diagnosis and evidence based medicine. While a full-time Consultant Senior Lecturer, he was responsible for developing and running the general practice part of the final examination for medical students at the University of Bristol.
In addition to the first edition of The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment, Dr Schroeder has previously written for GP registrars (Top Tips for GPs, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000) and co-written numerous book chapters, including two chapters for the Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care and a chapter on symptoms and signs for the Oxford Handbook of General Practice (3rd ed). He has had papers published in international peer-reviewed journals including the BMJ, Family Practice, and Archives of Internal Medicine, as well as articles in the GP press. His main clinical and teaching interest is clinical assessment and diagnosis.
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