Hamish Mckenzie, Robert Laing, Alexander Mackenzie, Pamela Molyneaux, Abhijit Bal

Infectious Disease

Clinical Cases Uncovered
With Hamish McKenzie, Robert Laing, Alexander Mackenzie et al.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Infectious Disease is a core topic within the clinical curriculumand students are expected to recognize, understand and know how toinvestigate and manage many infectious conditions.
Infectious Disease: Clinical Cases Uncovered leadsstudents through a clinical approach to managing problems, with aquestion-answer approach developing the narrative. Withself-assessment exercises using MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, InfectiousDisease: Clinical Cases Uncovered is perfect for medicalstudents and junior doctors, infectious disease nurses, nursingstudents and nurse practitioners.

Produktdetails

• CCU Clinical Cases Uncovered
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405168910
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 186mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781405168915
• ISBN-10: 1405168919
• Artikelnr.: 26618513

Autorenporträt

Hamish McKenzie, Professor and Honorary Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Foresterhill Hospital, Aberdeen and Aberdeen Robert Laing, Consultant Physician in Infectious Disease and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Alexander McKenzie, Consultant Physician in Infection Disease and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Pamela Molyneaux, Consultant Virologist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Abhjit Bal, SpR in Medical Microbiology and Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. How to use this book. Part 1 Basics. Laboratory diagnosis of infection. Antimicrobial chemotherapy. Infection and immunity. Approach to the patient. Part 2 Cases. Case 1 A 68
year
old woman with bloody diarrhoea. Case 2 A 73
year
old man who has been feeling generally unwell for 2 weeks. Case 3 A 36
year
old man with hospital
acquired pneumonia. Case 4 A 26
year
old male with jaundice. Case 5 A 28
year
old female student with severe headache and drowsiness. Case 6 A 30
year
old female with a vesicular skin rash. Case 7 A 37
year
old man with fever and pleuritic pain. Case 8 A 14
year
old school girl with a rash. Case 9 A 68
year
old woman with fever and muscle pains. Case 10 A 35
year
old teacher with fever and chills on return from Malawi. Case 11 A 32
year
old man with night sweats and fatigue. Case 12 A 41
year
old male with a red, hot and swollen left lower leg. Case 13 An 18
year
old female student with vaginal discharge. Case 14 An outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting on an orthopaedic ward. Case 15 An antenatal visit. Case 16 Headache in a 35
year
old South African woman. Case 17 A 64
year
old man with fever and rigors. Case 18 A 42
year
man with fever, cough and myalgia. Case 19 A 75
year
old man with a sore hip. Case 20 A 24
year
old man with acute myelogenous leukaemia who has developed a fever. Case 21 A 53
year
old man with fever, severe back pain and abdominal pain. Case 22 A 20
year
old female student with a rash, fever, myalgia and diarrhoea. Case 23 A 54
year
old man with a cough and night sweats. Case 24 A 15
year
old boy with fever and a sore throat. Part 3 Self
assessment. MCQs. EMQs. SAQs. Answers. Index of cases by diagnosis or organism. Index.