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Learning clinical skills : pearls, pitfalls and tips for the OSCE [E-Book]

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Series: Health care in transition seriesPublication details: New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781621004691
1621004694

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NLM classification:

W 21.5

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Contents:

The consultation / Joe Moran -- Persistent cough / Marcus P. Kennedy -- Murmurs, heart sounds and more / David Kerins and Carl Vaughan -- Diarrhea: a common symptom / Eamonn M. Quigley -- Neurological examination / Patricia M. Fitzgerald -- Petechiae and purpura / Mary R. Cahill -- Meningococcal septicaemia in children / Jackelina Pando-Kelly and Deirdre Murray -- Neonatal jaundice and the newborn screening examination / Tony Ryan -- Examining the abdomen / David Power and Mark Corrigan -- The diabetic foot: pearls, pitfalls, and tips for the OSCE / Antoinette Tuthill -- Shock and collapse in the emergency department / Stephen Cusack -- D is for dyspnoea / John Hinchion -- Infectious diseases: a broad differential / Mary Horgan, Sarah O'Connell and Sarah Moran -- Chronic kidney disease uncovered / Liam Plant -- The older patient / Denis O'Mahony -- Introduction to skin examination / Benvon Moran and John Bourke -- Syncope: reassure or refer? / Fionnuala Quigley -- Safe for surgery: pre-operative assessment for anaesthesia and surgery / Brian O'Donnell -- The psychiatric interview and mental state examination / Aisling Campbell -- Ophthalmology for medical students / Sinead Byrne -- Common things are common. Otitis Media / Brendan Fennessy and Gerard O'Leary.

Summary: Hearing the patient's story, asking the right questions, and doing a careful, thorough and informed physical examination are intrinsic to good medicine. This book is a clinical skills textbook with a third dimension - the human factor. We read about real people, real symptoms and real diagnostic problems.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic book	Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Online		Link to resource	Available

"Nova biomedical."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Hearing the patient's story, asking the right questions, and doing a careful, thorough and informed physical examination are intrinsic to good medicine. This book is a clinical skills textbook with a third dimension - the human factor. We read about real people, real symptoms and real diagnostic problems.

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