Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking /
Bickley, Lynn S.
Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking / Lynn S. Bickley and Peter G. Szilagyi - Tenth edition. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009 - xxiii, 964 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Foundations of Health Assessment -- Chapter 1. Overview: Physical Examination and History Taking -- Chapter 2. Clinical Reasoning, Assessment, and Recording your Findings -- Chapter 3. Interviewing and the Health History -- Unit 2. Regional Examinations -- Chapter 4. Beginning the Physical Examination: General Survey, Vital Signs, and Pain -- Chapter 5. Behavior and Mental Status -- Chapter 6. The Skin, Hair and Nails -- Chapter 7. The Head and Neck -- Chapter 8. The Thorax and Lungs -- Chapter 9. The Cardiovascular System -- Chapter 10. The Breasts and Axillae -- Chapter 11. The Abdomen -- Chapter 12. The Peripheral Vascular System -- Chapter 13. Male Genitalia and Hernias -- Chapter 14. Female Genitalia -- Chapter 15. The Anus, Rectum and Prostate -- Chapter 16. The Musculoskeletal System -- Chapter 17. The Nervous System -- Unit 3. Special Populations -- Chapter 18. Assessing Children: Infancy through Adolescence -- Chapter 19. The Pregnant Women -- Chapter 20. The Older Adult.
The Tenth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examinations and taking patient history. The book features a beautiful full-color art program and a clear, simple two-column format, with highly visual step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right. This edition's health promotion sections have been extensively updated and expanded in all chapters, with new and revised national guidelines, pertinent screening tools, and more information about ways to help patients prevent disease and optimize their health across all settings and age groups. Detailed information on pain assessment is now included in the general survey, vital signs, and pain chapter. A new chapter presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care. Evidence-based content has been increased, with pertinent findings, avenues for research, and references/suggested readings added across the entire book. More than 50 new line drawings and photos have been added.
9781605478036
PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS
RC 76 .B53 2009
Bates' guide to physical examination and history taking / Lynn S. Bickley and Peter G. Szilagyi - Tenth edition. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009 - xxiii, 964 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Foundations of Health Assessment -- Chapter 1. Overview: Physical Examination and History Taking -- Chapter 2. Clinical Reasoning, Assessment, and Recording your Findings -- Chapter 3. Interviewing and the Health History -- Unit 2. Regional Examinations -- Chapter 4. Beginning the Physical Examination: General Survey, Vital Signs, and Pain -- Chapter 5. Behavior and Mental Status -- Chapter 6. The Skin, Hair and Nails -- Chapter 7. The Head and Neck -- Chapter 8. The Thorax and Lungs -- Chapter 9. The Cardiovascular System -- Chapter 10. The Breasts and Axillae -- Chapter 11. The Abdomen -- Chapter 12. The Peripheral Vascular System -- Chapter 13. Male Genitalia and Hernias -- Chapter 14. Female Genitalia -- Chapter 15. The Anus, Rectum and Prostate -- Chapter 16. The Musculoskeletal System -- Chapter 17. The Nervous System -- Unit 3. Special Populations -- Chapter 18. Assessing Children: Infancy through Adolescence -- Chapter 19. The Pregnant Women -- Chapter 20. The Older Adult.
The Tenth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examinations and taking patient history. The book features a beautiful full-color art program and a clear, simple two-column format, with highly visual step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right. This edition's health promotion sections have been extensively updated and expanded in all chapters, with new and revised national guidelines, pertinent screening tools, and more information about ways to help patients prevent disease and optimize their health across all settings and age groups. Detailed information on pain assessment is now included in the general survey, vital signs, and pain chapter. A new chapter presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care. Evidence-based content has been increased, with pertinent findings, avenues for research, and references/suggested readings added across the entire book. More than 50 new line drawings and photos have been added.
9781605478036
PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS
RC 76 .B53 2009