Davidson's foundations of clinical practice

• Main Author: Davidson, Stanley Sir 1894-1981 (Author)
• Other Authors: Scott, Hazel R. (Editor), Jones, Jeremy B. (Editor), Blyth, Kevin G. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: Clinical Medicine > methods; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
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This book is designed as a companion to the initial years of hospital training for junior doctors in training, including, but not limited to, the core elements of the curriculum for Foundation Training in the UK. Patients have co-morbidity and mixed patterns of clinical presentation and thus the boo...

Table of Contents:

• Initial assessment and emergency management
• Use of equipment and procedures
• Interpreting tests
• Drugs and prescribing
• Cardiac and chest
• Abdominal
• Endocrine, electrolyte, and renal
• Neurological and psychiatric
• Sepsis, shock, and trauma
• Specialty acute presentations
• Cancers and palliative care
• On the ward
• Legal and ethical practice
• Looking after yourself
• Developing a career
• Working as part of the system of care
• Working in the UK.