Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History-Taking

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New life cycle content, including an increased emphasis on cardiovascular health promotion and child development; updated pregnancy topics such as weight gain, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence; and new information on the older adult, including frailty, immunizations, cancer screening, cognitive decline and dementia screening, and a new algorithm for falls prevention.

Based on Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination with OSCEs maintains the evidence-based origins of the text and provides careful attention to clinical accuracy, and to the range of patient types profiled in the series. Text boxes are numbered to provide quick access to important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques. The comprehensive, evidence-based content is intended for medical students, high-level nursing education and practice markets, as well as related health professions such as physician assistants. Also, it highlights the key ideas in a blue box for the students to have easy access for reviewing later.Bates’ also includes a unit on special populations, covering special stages in the life cycle—infancy through adolescence, pregnancy, and aging. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that drive effective decision-making and outcomes across healthcare. This edition has demonstrated the commitment that this group has to the development of exceptional physical examination book. The book features a vibrant full-color art program and an easy-to-follow two-column format with step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right.Provides a foundation for learning and performing physical examination techniques and history taking. The book features a vibrant full-color design with over 1,400 drawings and photographs and a clear, simple two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination delivers new clinical skills videos featuring head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques.

Text boxes are numbered to provide quick access to important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques. In addition to practicing clinicians, this resource is ideal for any institution’s assessment or clinical medicine courses within medical, nursing, physician assistant, physical or occupational therapy, and pharmacy programs. The videos demonstrate visually the varying techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation in the regional examinations and special populations. New life cycle content , including an increased emphasis on cardiovascular health promotion and child development; updated pregnancy topics such as weight gain, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence; and new information on the older adult, including frailty, immunizations, cancer screening, cognitive decline and dementia screening, and a new algorithm for falls prevention. Rewritten chapter on evaluating clinical evidence clarifies key concepts to ensure student understanding.Topics include active and attentive listening, disclosing serious news, rapport with LGBTQ adults, and more. New patient encounter videos allow you to practice your clinical reasoning skills and review for exams. Acclaimed as the leading medical physical examination pocket guide available today, this concise resource offers an easy-to-follow two-column format that correlates examination techniques on the left and abnormalities (clearly indicated in red) with differential diagnoses on the right. Key performance insights are reported in a user-friendly dashboard that allows you to tailor your learning experiences. This highly regarded text includes fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline the correct performance of the physical examination and an easy-to-follow two-column format featuring examination techniques on the left and abnormalities (clearly indicated in red) with differential diagnosis on the right.

Highlights include: New information on guidelines for assessing obesity and nutrition, and managing acute and chronic pain.This book presents an approach that retains the two-column format placing examination procedures and proper techniques on the left, and common abnormalities and possible interpretations on the right. Every section of this quality book provides an extensive amount of critical information in an easy-to-use format. Restructured Regional Exam chapters enhance your understanding of overview material, examination techniques, and health promotion and counseling considerations. Detailed, highly illustrated tables of abnormal conditions display examination and clinical information in an easy-to-find, quick-reference format.