This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning.
The cases cover a wide range of acute symptoms and conditions encountered in medicine, with clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The level of detail is ideal for exam revision as well as to support junior doctors and other healthcare professionals on the wards.
Now in its fifth edition, this latest Kumar & Clark has been fully updated by new editors who bring a wealth of clinical experience as well as a recent junior doctor perspective to this highly useful book.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Copyright - p. iv 4. Contents - p. v 5. Acknowledgements - p. vii 6. Preface - p. ix 7. Chapter 1 Emergency Medicine and Toxicology - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Cardiology - p. 24 9. Chapter 3 Respiratory Disorders - p. 78 10. Chapter 4 Gastroenterology - p. 131 11. Chapter 5 Liver and Biliary Tract Disorders - p. 157 12. Chapter 6 Kidney and Urinary Tract Disease - p. 175 13. Chapter 7 Neurologia - p. 211 14. Chapter 8 Psychiatry - p. 259 15. Chapter 9 Rheumatology and Bone Disease - p. 281 16. Chapter 10 Endocrinology and Diabetes - p. 311 17. Chapter 11 Haematology and Oncology - p. 355 18. Chapter 12 Dermatology - p. 417 19. Chapter 13 Infectious Diseases - p. 444 20. Chapter 14 Sexually Transmitted Infections - p. 457 21. Chapter 15 Care of the Elderly and Palliative Care - p. 469 22. Index - p. 511
This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning.
The cases cover a wide range of acute symptoms and conditions encountered in medicine, with clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The level of detail is ideal for exam revision as well as to support junior doctors and other healthcare professionals on the wards.
Now in its fifth edition, this latest Kumar & Clark has been fully updated by new editors who bring a wealth of clinical experience as well as a recent junior doctor perspective to this highly useful book.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Copyright - p. iv 4. Contents - p. v 5. Acknowledgements - p. vii 6. Preface - p. ix 7. Chapter 1 Emergency Medicine and Toxicology - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Cardiology - p. 24 9. Chapter 3 Respiratory Disorders - p. 78 10. Chapter 4 Gastroenterology - p. 131 11. Chapter 5 Liver and Biliary Tract Disorders - p. 157 12. Chapter 6 Kidney and Urinary Tract Disease - p. 175 13. Chapter 7 Neurologia - p. 211 14. Chapter 8 Psychiatry - p. 259 15. Chapter 9 Rheumatology and Bone Disease - p. 281 16. Chapter 10 Endocrinology and Diabetes - p. 311 17. Chapter 11 Haematology and Oncology - p. 355 18. Chapter 12 Dermatology - p. 417 19. Chapter 13 Infectious Diseases - p. 444 20. Chapter 14 Sexually Transmitted Infections - p. 457 21. Chapter 15 Care of the Elderly and Palliative Care - p. 469 22. Index - p. 511
