Clinical Tuberculosis: A Practical Handbook

by Davies; Peter D. O.

• ISBN13: 9781444163209
• ISBN10: 1444163205
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-12-07
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Clinical Tuberculosis: a practical guide will be invaluable for all junior doctors, nurses and TB workers who have to manage patients with tuberculosis, whether in the well-resourced or poorly-resourced healthcare setting. With extensive case studies, clinical pearls and down to earth practical advice, this book offers a clinical manual outlining day to day management of patients together with treatment and control of this important and ever-spreading global disease. * Case studies, practical advice and clinical pearls of wisdom bring this text alive. * Learn how to manage patients with tuberculosis in all sorts of settings - whether well resourced or poorly resourced. * Provides a comprehensive, practical text detailing all you need to know to manage patients, their treatment and control of TB. * A wealth of new diagrams and clinical photographs help make the information available at a glance. Practical yet authoritative, this handbook contains all the background information and clinical advice that the healthcare worker needs to know for the step by step diagnosis, management and treatment of patients with tuberculosis in whatever circumstances and environment they might be.