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Essential Skills in Clinical Medicine,9780803600140

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Essential Skills in Clinical Medicine

Author(s): Bardes, Charles L.
ISBN10: 0803600143
ISBN13: 9780803600140
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 8/1/1995
Publisher(s): F a Davis Co

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Summary

Table of Contents

As you begin your clinical training, this easy-to-read handbook will help you to succeed in your daily responsibilities and diagnostic problem solving. This book conveniently explains how to: spell out hospital organization and duties so that you feel comfortable from your first day; explains how to tell which diagnostic tests are needed and which are not; provides sample notes and orders as models to help you learn how to write them properly; and much more.

Part I. The Clinics

Hospital Organization

3

(8)

The medical team

3

(1)

Doctors

3

(5)

Other providers

8

(1)

The hospital

9

(2)

Ambulatory Settings

11

(10)

Ambulatory medicine: general principles

11

(3)

Hospital clinics

14

(2)

Neighborhood health centers

16

(1)

Physician offices

16

(1)

The emergency department

17

(1)

The telephone

18

(3)

Rounds

21

(8)

Rounds explained

21

(1)

Morning rounds

21

(2)

Work rounds

23

(1)

Attending rounds

24

(1)

``Chart rounds''

25

(1)

Sign-out rounds

25

(2)

Grand rounds

27

(1)

``Roundsmanship''

27

(2)

Writing Notes

29

(33)

General principles

29

(6)

Admission notes

35

(8)

Progress notes

43

(1)

Update notes

44

(1)

Procedure notes

44

(3)

Surgical notes

47

(2)

Discharge notes

49

(1)

Outpatient notes

50

(2)

Sample admission note

52

(5)

Sample progress notes

57

(5)

Oral Presentations

62

(9)

General principles

62

(1)

Formal case presentation

63

(3)

Presentation on morning rounds

66

(3)

Other presentations

69

(2)

Writing Orders

71

(28)

General principles

71

(1)

How to write an order

72

(1)

Ordering medications

73

(7)

Ordering fluids

80

(2)

Ordering oxygen

82

(3)

Other orders

85

(2)

Making sure the order is right

87

(1)

Admission orders

88

(3)

Daily orders

91

(1)

Preoperative orders

92

(1)

Postoperative orders

93

(1)

Prescriptions

94

(5)

Procedures

99

(8)

Performing procedures

99

(1)

Indications and contraindications

100

(1)

Complications

101

(1)

Informed consent

102

(2)

Common procedures

104

(3)

Preventing Nosocomial Infection

107

(10)

General principles

107

(2)

Universal precautions

109

(2)

Special isolation

111

(1)

Preventing injury to oneself

112

(2)

Preventing HIV infection

114

(3)

Relations with Patients

117

(13)

Principles

117

(1)

Interpersonal relations

118

(4)

Ethical responsibilities

122

(3)

Legal responsibilities

125

(5)

Being Effective: Goals and Skills

130

(7)

A day in the life

130

(1)

On call

131

(1)

Being an effective physician-in-training

132

(5)

Part II. Assimilating Information

Accessing the Medical Literature

137

(14)

Sources of information

137

(3)

The computer literature search

140

(3)

Critical reading

143

(8)

Interpreting Tests

151

(23)

General principles

151

(3)

Interpreting blood tests

154

(8)

Interpreting chest x-rays

162

(5)

Interpreting electrocardiograms

167

(7)

Approaches to Common Clinical Problems

174

(57)

Inpatient problems

175

(34)

Outpatient problems

209

(22)

Part III. The Diagnostic Process

The Problem List

231

(9)

Clinical problem solving

231

(2)

The problem list: general principles

233

(3)

Making the problem list

236

(4)

Differential Diagnosis

240

(13)

General principles

240

(1)

Strategies for differential diagnosis

241

(12)

Diagnostic Testing

253

(14)

General principles

253

(2)

Test characteristics

255

(2)

Using tests

257

(4)

Choosing tests

261

(2)

Continuous values

263

(1)

Combining tests

264

(1)

Screening tests

264

(3)

Diagnosis

267

(11)

General principles

267

(5)

Diagnosis and decision

272

(2)

Problems in diagnosis

274

(4)

Clinical Case Problems

278

(82)

Approach to solving clinical cases

278

(3)

Wilma Trager

281

(4)

Stetson SanSouci

285

(4)

Keebler Nobbit

289

(6)

Dottie Dieffendorfer

295

(4)

Bartolo Dottore

299

(4)

Morbia Prendergast

303

(6)

Eleanor Sniggle

309

(8)

Omar Deng

317

(6)

Bunter Frill

323

(6)

Rex Plover

329

(6)

Mamie Kriebel

335

(6)

Hans Castorp

341

(8)

Ludmilla T. Raum

349

(6)

Susan Domonas

355

(5)

Appendix A. Medical Abbreviations

360

(7)

Appendix B. Reading and References

367

(8)

Envoi

375

(2)

Index

377

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