Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skills
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.
For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.
This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.
1. Talley & O’Connor’s Examination Medicine: A Guide to Physician Training - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. How to use - p. iii 6. Copyright - p. iv 7. Foreword - p. ix 8. Preface to the 10th edition - p. xi 9. Abbreviations - p. xiii 10. List of reviewers - p. xix 11. Acknowledgements - p. xxi 12. Author photo - p. xxiii 13. List of Illustrations - p. xxv 14. List of Tables - p. xxvi 15. 1. Basic physician training - p. 1 16. 2. The written examination - p. 9 17. 3. The clinical examination - p. 16 18. 4. The long case - p. 34 19. 5. The cardiovascular long case - p. 47 20. 6. The respiratory long case - p. 93 21. 7. The gastrointestinal long case - p. 160 22. 8. The haematological long case - p. 211 23. 9. The rheumatological long case - p. 254 24. 10. The endocrine long case - p. 295 25. 11. The renal long case - p. 334 26. 12. The neurological long case - p. 359 27. 13. Other important long cases and long-case fragments - p. 390 28. 14. Think like a physician, think like an examiner – an approach with long-case examples - p. 417 29. 15. The short case - p. 437 30. 16. Common short cases - p. 445 31. The cardiovascular system - p. 445 32. The respiratory system - p. 481 33. The gastrointestinal system - p. 496 34. The haematological system - p. 505 35. The endocrine system - p. 511 36. The rheumatological system - p. 531 37. The nervous system - p. 561 38. Notes on the neurological short case - p. 561 39. Eyes - p. 569 40. One-and-a-half syndrome - p. 570 41. Horner’s syndrome - p. 570 42. Notes on the cranial nerves - p. 571 43. Higher centres - p. 584 44. Speech - p. 587 45. Upper limbs - p. 590 46. Shoulder girdle examination - p. 593 47. Lower limbs - p. 594 48. Notes on the neurological examination of the limbs - p. 598 49. Notes on spinal cord lesions - p. 606 50. Dystrophia myotonica - p. 616 51. Gait - p. 618 52. Cerebellum - p. 618 53. Parkinson’s disease - p. 621 54. Chorea - p. 622 55. Dystonia - p. 623 56. Index - p. 625
Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skills
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.
For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.
This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.
1. Talley & O’Connor’s Examination Medicine: A Guide to Physician Training - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. How to use - p. iii 6. Copyright - p. iv 7. Foreword - p. ix 8. Preface to the 10th edition - p. xi 9. Abbreviations - p. xiii 10. List of reviewers - p. xix 11. Acknowledgements - p. xxi 12. Author photo - p. xxiii 13. List of Illustrations - p. xxv 14. List of Tables - p. xxvi 15. 1. Basic physician training - p. 1 16. 2. The written examination - p. 9 17. 3. The clinical examination - p. 16 18. 4. The long case - p. 34 19. 5. The cardiovascular long case - p. 47 20. 6. The respiratory long case - p. 93 21. 7. The gastrointestinal long case - p. 160 22. 8. The haematological long case - p. 211 23. 9. The rheumatological long case - p. 254 24. 10. The endocrine long case - p. 295 25. 11. The renal long case - p. 334 26. 12. The neurological long case - p. 359 27. 13. Other important long cases and long-case fragments - p. 390 28. 14. Think like a physician, think like an examiner – an approach with long-case examples - p. 417 29. 15. The short case - p. 437 30. 16. Common short cases - p. 445 31. The cardiovascular system - p. 445 32. The respiratory system - p. 481 33. The gastrointestinal system - p. 496 34. The haematological system - p. 505 35. The endocrine system - p. 511 36. The rheumatological system - p. 531 37. The nervous system - p. 561 38. Notes on the neurological short case - p. 561 39. Eyes - p. 569 40. One-and-a-half syndrome - p. 570 41. Horner’s syndrome - p. 570 42. Notes on the cranial nerves - p. 571 43. Higher centres - p. 584 44. Speech - p. 587 45. Upper limbs - p. 590 46. Shoulder girdle examination - p. 593 47. Lower limbs - p. 594 48. Notes on the neurological examination of the limbs - p. 598 49. Notes on spinal cord lesions - p. 606 50. Dystrophia myotonica - p. 616 51. Gait - p. 618 52. Cerebellum - p. 618 53. Parkinson’s disease - p. 621 54. Chorea - p. 622 55. Dystonia - p. 623 56. Index - p. 625
